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Originally Posted by Jellby
You can read it anywhere[*], once you download it in the US. Otherwise, you'd have to leave all your public-domain-in-Canada-but-not-in-the-US books home when you travel (and I mean both ebooks and paper books). It's only the act of copying (including copying from the net to your computer) and distributing works that's affected by copyright, carrying your legally acquired copies to and fro is not a problem.
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It's an interesting point. As you very rightly say, it would be absolutely fine to download it in the US and take it back to Canada. But, technically speaking, you'd then be breaking Canadian copyright law if you were to, say, copy it from your PC to an eBook reader while in Canada
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