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Originally Posted by vivaldirules
Whoa! This seems rather amazing to me. And a bit scary, too. For example, I also see that A. A. Milne died January 31, 1956 so it would seem to me that the text of his books Winnie the Pooh and The House at Pooh Corner are in the public domain in Canada. And we realize, don't we, that we're now talking about Disney (think litigation and $$$) and a major force behind the current copyright laws in the U.S.? At least one complication is that the books were originally published with illustrations by E. H. Shepard who died in 1974. So his illustrations should still be protected in Canada and therefore maybe the books as a whole are thus protected? I don't know. I'm just pointing out that I had not realized until now the gravity of this.
So the bottom line question is, would Alexander and the moderators approve if someone from Canada posted ebooks containing the unillustrated texts by A. A. Milne? And, have no fear, I'm not going near these with a ten foot pole (or even the North Pole).
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well, correct me if i'm wrong, but it seems to me that disney or no disney, if Milne died in 1956 then his texts are definitely in the PD in Canada and therefore there should be no problem at all with posting them on our canadian servers. the illustrations are probably a different story so i suppose it's best to avoid them for the moment. canadian members, who's interested ?