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Originally Posted by haridasi
Just stating: "illegal, link deleted" gives me a police state feeling (and it's the second time i've seen it done today). When I also couple that with HarryT's opinions regarding copyright infringement in the discussion "Book piracy, is ebook piracy on the rise", I get the shivers.
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I believe that Haradiri may be referring to this thread:
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=27295
Please let me explain my reasoning. I do not interfere with member’s posts lightly.
I was the mod who removed the link. It was to a 1972 book. I did a web search and found the book was in copyright:
"This electronic file is Copyright © 1972-2006 Bhaktivedanta Book Trust International Inc., 3764 Watseka Avenue, Los Angeles, California 90034, USA. All rights reserved.”
Moreover, the search threw up the notice that:
“You may not excerpt or reproduce more than five percent (5%) of this file in any other medium without the express written permission from the copyright owners."
Now, when I clicked on the link I was taken directly to a copy of the book. There was no way of telling whether it was the original, or whether the member who posted it had uploaded a copy (--which would have been a violation of the 5% rule). And the member had not explained that he had got permission to distribute copies.
Under these circumstances, what is a mod to do? I removed the link (--politely, I hope) and invited the member to re-post if I had made a mistake.
“We can't allow links that risk violating copyright, so I'm afraid that I'm going to delete it.
But if you have the author's permission, Pankaja, then repost it.”
I am very sorry that Haradiri has been worried by this episode. I actually feel rather upset at worrying both him and the original poster in the other thread. The last thing I want to do is upset our members. But we also want to stay legal and comply with Canadian copyright law. (Our servers are in Canada.)