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Old 01-11-2008, 02:29 PM   #21
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Originally Posted by HarryT View Post
Just like PG Australia are not breaking any law in having material on their server which is out of copyright in Australia, but in copyright in the US, but if you live in the US, you are breaking the law if you download from PG Australia a book which is within copyright in the US.
Which partially shows us how broken the current scheme is now that we have these worldwide repositories of data, and instant easy communication of large amounts of information across national borders, not to mention volunteers doing non-commercial releases of works...

This must mostly be a headache for authors wanting to use those works, companies wanting to publish them, and the volunteers, but it's certainly a mess.
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