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Old 12-08-2010, 01:54 PM   #228
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Originally Posted by HarryT View Post
I entirely agree with you that there are all sorts of things that one would not like to see people doing with books that are in the public domain, but the price to pay for imposing legal restrictions on its use would be one that would be too high to pay: the effect would almost inevitably be to harm the legitimate user far more than the (very rare) abuser of this material.
Good, can I take that to mean that you agree that selling identical copies of PG texts without informing the user that they are identical copies of freely available works is one these things that one would not like to see people doing?
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