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Originally Posted by tompe
I am interested in what holds. And if some copyright goes to the person doing the book then I would like the license for that part to be stated in the book or in the post containing the book.
I think you need to modify the work a lot for it not to be in the public domain.
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The *text* is still in the public domain. The format is copyrighted by the person who creates the layout. That's how publishers can "copyright" the works of Shakespeare.
The books offered here are "free to download for the users of Mobileread forums." Some are public domain texts and open to any use. Some are creative commons and can't be sold w/o permission. Some are perhaps offered here specifically, and there's no permission to put them on other sites.
Nobody's going back through several thousand ebooks to figure out which ones are legal to sell, or archive elsewhere... the purpose of posting them is free ebook exchange. People who want to use them for commercial purposes will have to do their own legwork, sorting out who owns the various rights and contacting whoever's necessary.