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Originally Posted by tompe
Why? Do you mean that it is illegal for you to have these two files?
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It is in the U.S. The files were created by an unauthorized agent (Blackmask), without the permission of the copyright holder (Conde Nast). In fact, Blackmask was sued to take the
Doc Savage and
Shadow e-book files off of their site. According to U.S. law, it is illegal to distribute those files, for free or at cost, without the copyright holder's express permission.
Blackmask tried to counter that the books had been neglected by Conde Nast, and therefore should have been considered publicly accessible in e-book form, but the court denied the argument. Today, there are no e-book versions of the
Doc Savage or
Shadow material that are authorized by the legal copyright holder, Conde Nast. And that means that if I, an American citizen, posess those files, I am breaking the law.