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Originally Posted by Lynx-lynx
Stonetools you've taken the UN statement way out of context
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No. He quoted 27.2 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in full. If you want the even broader international law context of the Universal Declaration's "material interests" of the author provision, check out the older Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works -- which, as it is closely followed by Canadian law, is effectively the standard for what can be uploaded to this site.
Letting individual downloaders decide what eBooks will, and will not, be free samples is the opposite of respecting the author's rights under international law.