They can also protect the UBS4/NA27 text itself with the copyright.
Not if they say it is in fact the original NT texts. And if they don't make that claim, they can only protect their differences from other texts, where those differences are "creative". My guess is it that they are not claiming it to be true to the originals, but that it is true to scholarly modern standards of textual methods, and that using these methods they have created something new, not recovered something old. In any case, assuming that the copyright is not valid could be a big mistake even if it is not valid.
Without a copyright, then anyone else (like the JW's) is free to alter the text and publish it and say it is UBS4/NA27. I don't think any of us want that to happen.
The desire to protect, for whatever reason, does not of it self make a valid copyright.
IANAL Jerry
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