OK, I'll look into adjusting my tool [1] to take the
ePub Books forum or the corresponding
index as source for threads with EPUB attachments as soon as time permits.
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They are all compliant with life+70 requirements.
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I naively assumed this, especially as I see no point in a restrictively licensed public library, but I was soon corrected that the copyright notice and upload policy allows cases where
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the copyright holder has given specific permission for distribution
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which doesn't require the work to be in Public Domain [2]. As neither the upload thread nor the Wiki list contains any machine readable information about whether the work is in Public Domain or only provided to mobileread with special permission, at least I'm all the time at risk because people might use my software to download those works and redistribute them, and depending on the law of certain countries, this might be considered aid to copyright infringement.
I just realized that the index has a nice notice regarding Patricia Clark, while the eBook forums might be already way too full for it.
[1] Note that with such enhancements, the idea of converting threads to EPUB and PDF for printing immediately pops into my mind...
[2] Seems the posting guidelines under item 8 make such uploads CC0, and (some German) uploaders are not aware of that. If so, the copyright notice containing "the copyright holder has given specific permission for distribution" is misleading, it should explicitly state the CC0 licensing.