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Old 02-05-2011, 02:46 AM   #8109
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Originally Posted by caleb72 View Post
It makes the whole notion of taking advantage of PD books a bit of a nightmare really. You have this big store saying "Get your (legal) Public Domain books here" not really noticing the small print that you have to research before you touch anything.
Worse than that — you have commercial ebook stores (Kindle, B&N, Waterstones, W H Smith) saying "Get your legal ebooks here", and they're not all legal.

George Orwell died in 1950. E. M. Forster died in 1970. There was a big fuss about an illegal copy of "1984", but no-one worries about "A Room With A View"?

Perhaps it just goes to show how bad a life+70 copyright law is.
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