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Originally Posted by Lynx-lynx
Harry, I'm a bit confused by the statement in bold because Muckracker referred specifically to a book that was authored by a US citizen and first published in the US, and is subject to the Berne convention.
How is then that UK copyright could have relevance if a UK person purchased this book, or ebook, or got it for free, from a US published source, eg Gutenberg?
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A person in the UK could perfectly legally buy a printed book of such a US public domain work from a US bookstore, but they'd be breaking UK copyright law in downloading it from PG (or any other source). That's why PG (and other reputable book libraries, such as MR) tell you to check whether or not the book is in the public domain in your country before you download it.
In reality, though, I very much doubt that anyone would care about such downloads for personal use. You're only likely to find yourself in trouble if you were to do something like try to publish the copyrighted work in the UK.