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Are these ebooks not freely redistributable? Am I committing copyright infringement if I download a book from MobileRead and later decide to give a copy of the ebook to a friend? Please clarify as I think this is more important that the torrent issue.
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If the books based on Gutenberg books and posted here are in the public domain then anybody can do anything with the book. The question is if they are in the public domain or not?
The CC books is of course not in the public domain. But what holds for the other books based on public domain texts?