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Originally Posted by VicLavigne
Submitting an ebook to a distribution site may well qualify as piracy, depending on its copyright status and any notices about rights to distribution. I think it is safe to submit a copy of "Alice in Wonderland" to any distribution site you want, as long as your copy does not have copywrited addendums or annotations in it. Submission of a free ebook obtained from Kindle might be an offense if the copyright is still in effect.
Vic
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You are probably right that uploading a work that is in the "public domain" to an ebook distribution site is safe, depending on your local laws. But how local shall we go? Are we meant to allow others to sanction the yearnings of our own minds????? Is downloading/reading going to become a criminal offense as many wish it to?
Copyright was not written by the people or for the people. The people do not need a right to copy, they have always copied what they wished.
Copyright was written for a minority who felt that their works needed to be protected from consumption by those who could not afford to read them.
Copyright was a mistake from its conception.
Copyright can be fixed.
Everything that has ever been or will ever be written is under a perpetual copyright held by the creator. It is the only solution that makes any sense at all. All discussions of copyright concerning time are meaningless as your conception of time is most likely far different than mine.
No idea will ever be sold again. Ideas will be freely given, and some will be rewarded monetarily or otherwise. This has already begun.
As you can read, I do not advocate for piracy. How could I or anyone, when we have no idea what the practice even means? Piracy does not exist because it cannot exist.