Quote:
Originally Posted by DMcCunney
That's actually an interesting question.
You live in the US, where a work is still in copyright. It's out of copyright elsewhere, and you find an electronic copy, which you massage into a form usable by MobileRead visitors. You upload it for posting, and it gets stored on a server where the copyright has expired and it's a legal download.
How much trouble can you be in for having done the conversion? And who would be likely to go after you for having done it?
I'd be more worried about possible dangers to MobileRead for accepting work from from me in that case than I'd be about getting in trouble for doing it.
Copyright infringement suits presume damage in the form of lost revenues from the infringement, and take time and cost money to prosecute. Someone would have to see real potential losses to bother.
I'm not sure I'd let living in the US deter me from doing the work.
______
Dennis
|
I can give you one example. We could legally host "Gone With the Wind" because the author died more than 50 years ago. But we won't. There is even a
source file at PG Australia to work from.
One of the moderators has a legal copy, but has decided not to post it because the Mitchell estate has threatened other websites (even though those other sites were not breaking any laws).