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Originally Posted by Ralph Sir Edward
I do have one baldly practical question. There are many PD e-book uploads on the site, available for download (all hail to the contributors!), But....under what law is your definition of PD? This is important so that people can compare to their individual countries laws when downloading. RSE  |
AFAIK, MobileRead's server is in Canada, and the stuff hosted at MobileReader is PD under
Canadian law. This means that some of it is technically not legal under US law. However, there is no clear indication of what content is legal under what jurisdiction, and I don't think there
can be.
The site is covered by being hosted in Canada, and making the disclaimer. It can't be held responsible if a user grabs content that is legal for the site to host, but not from them to download.
If it's a concern to you, don't download if you aren't sure.
Personally, I don't worry about it. If it's hosted on MobileRead, and it's something I want, I download it. The legality only becomes an issue if someone is
aware that I've done so and considers it worth the trouble to take action against me. I don't see either of those circumstances occurring in real life.
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Dennis