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Originally Posted by thrawn_aj
http://ereads.com/2010/11/project-gu...ors-claim.html
Interesting statement. If I'm reading it correctly - the issue is that PG is being somewhat ... overzealous ... in consigning works to the public domain when they are still under copyright. Bear and his wife (also the daughter of Poul Anderson), make some good points in the statement. I would imagine it's a simple case of (as I said) over-zealousness on PG's part and they'll probably remove the offending works. Raises some intriguing questions about differing copyright laws throughout the world and how that's going to work out in this case.
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Project Gutenberg is only concerned with US copyright law. The issue in this case is that a serialisation was later published as part of a later novel with a different name. PG didn't notice the connection until it was pointed out to them.
Here's their response:
http://cand.pglaf.org/bear-response.txt
This particular case few general implications. PG will just have to be a little more careful in checking for registrations of copyright in future.
Oh - and PG dO NOT consign works to the public domain. Works are either in the public domain or are not in the public domain. It's just that working out into which category some works fit is harder than is ideal.