As a big eBook fan, I was happy to find this site via a long set of links that began here - http://goodexperience.com/2009/01/a-kindle-trick-to-cha.php

So, I'm cruising the free eBooks section of this site and found out the site is based in Canada (I subscribe to The Walrus and Spacing magazines and listen to a lot of CBC podcasts, so much of the media I acees is from Canada) and the caveat to the Lawrence Lessig book I want to download says this -
"This work is in the Canadian public domain OR the copyright holder has given specific permission for distribution. It may still be under copyright in some countries. If you live outside Canada, check your country's copyright laws. If the book is under copyright in your country, do not download or redistribute this work."

So, my question as a new member is, how does one go about and find all that copyright info out? I'm from the U.S.A., and not familiar with where I need to go to find out if I can download that Lessig book for free legally. (I've already read it years ago and lost my copy, so I'm looking to acquire an eBook copy to replace what I lost.) Of course, I want to do so legally, which is why I ask where I need to go so I can determine the proper copyright info.

Thanks,
Adam

Do you mean _Free Culture_ ? If so, I am pretty sure that is released in Creative Commons and can be shared for free in the US. This is in the ebook:

Copyright © 2004 by Lawrence Lessig. This version of Free
Culture is licensed under a Creative Commons license. This license
permits non-​commercial use of this work, so long as attribution is
given. For more information about the license, click the icon
above, or visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-​nc/1.0/

BOb

Hi Adam,

A good starter would be these two Wikipedia entries on Public Domain:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_domain
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries%27_copyright_length

And welcome on board!

Alex

That's exactly the info I needed!

Adam

Hi Adam and welcome to the Forum