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Originally Posted by Redcard
As for George Orwell, and 1984.. the book (and all his books) exit copyright in the European Union in 2020. That includes Switzerland. In the US, it expires in 2047. It is illegal to have it on this site, because this site is registered in Switzerland. If it's black and white, then the answer is anyone who downloaded that or any other George Orwell book here is a criminal.
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This site is registered in Canada, not Switzerland. Canada's has different laws than Europe. MobileRead also has a US based satellite that can contain eBook downloads that are legal in the US but illegal in Canada. Copyright laws can be confusing but MobileRead conforms to the known law for uploads. Whether it is legal to download stuff is not something that can be enforced by MobileRead since the Internet is world wide. It is up to the individual user to determine if it is legal to download any particular file for any particular purpose in the country where they live.
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