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Originally Posted by moz
Copyright holders commonly misstate their rights in such places, and those rights change over time.
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It's not so much that those rights are mis-stated (though anyone who incorrectly states their copyrights can't blame someone who acts according to inaccurate information)... it's that copyright laws have not established an international consensus. An accurate copyright notice for an internationally-available book would probably be five pages long...
International product availability has raised some serious issues regarding distribution and compensation that have yet to be adequately addressed (one of the main reasons we keep revisiting these themes in our threads here). It's one of many international communications issues that must be worked out, or the result will be the establishment of sovereign digital "borders," much like China's, to restrict and control digital trade.