Thread: Dangerously e-books: How do I know if my ebooks have been altered?
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Old 03-28-2014, 06:18 PM   #90
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Originally Posted by HarryT View Post
Interesting - that's something I hadn't come across before. I'm absolutely certain that no such concept exists in English law. Once a work enters the public domain, anyone is free to do whatever they wish with it, with no restrictions whatsoever.
Yes, in US and UK the moral copyright expires.

The wikipedia article for moral copyright is here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_rights

There is a reference to UK law on the wiki page.
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