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Old 06-24-2008, 12:59 PM   #49
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Originally Posted by Ralph Sir Edward View Post
Let me answer you hypothetically. If I do the work 1.) In the US, and 2.) as a US citizen, then I am a target for an infringment lawsuit because I infringed the work in the US. As a matter of fact, I'd make an excellent deterrent (Jammie Thompson type) lawsuit target. My Nom De Plume would be on the Mobileread Download. I prefer not to do it for those legal reasons. (Not moral reasons, I see no reason to say it's immoral to violate a life + 95 copyright vis a vis a life + 50 copyright, when the whole purpose of copyright was to be a wasting asset to encourage the creation of new works. Dead people don't create new works.)
That was my assumption.

The question becomes "How likely do you think anyone would be to come after you?" As mentioned, infringement suits take time and cost money, and get brought because someone sees potential losses from the infringement. In the vast majority of stuff offered on MobileRead, I can't see anyone finding it worth the trouble to go after.
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