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Originally Posted by issybird
In this case, the books are for sale, entirely legally, in Canada. But they're only for sale since someone who has no rights to the books in countries where they're still under copyright has OCRed them and uploaded them to Kobo. It makes no sense that it would be wrong to download them from Gutenberg CA (and only one is available) but somehow it's ok to buy them from Kobo CA, when, again, they're only available at Kobo CA because they're in the public domain in Canada.
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Both of these activities would be a violation of copyright. The books are in sale in Canada only because, as you say, they are in the Canadian public domain.