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Originally Posted by latepaul
Except it's not illegal. You clearly think it should be but that's another matter.
And the "volunteers" did this know the copyright status of the work - i.e. they knew it could be sold. And any companies selling editions of PD works know this - they know they are competing against freely available versions on the internet. They went into that business anyway. They presumably believe they can add value that people will find worth paying for. Also they are just as free to take the work of the volunteers and use it as anyone else so the playing field is actually more level that a lot of markets.
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You're right about "that's another matter". English is not my native langage so IF.
Also like i wrote. If a website write in the mention, you're free to kill your mother". Private mentions are not above the law. The value for the reader let me laught
, all this content is alredy available for free on Amazon and co...The value is for the bank account of this kind of publisher.
And about the matter,
Open a commerce, pay your bills, tax, salaries.... the day that you will see, next to the door a new shop, which break alls prices, because all products are done for free by volunteers. Tell me: is it a fair competion? Is it legal in US ?
So some volunteers know? realy do you know that some texts are cut and past from anonymous websites.
Except the geek world, is the customer know this kind of practice. Not sure.