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Originally Posted by DaleDe
As I have said before. The library is compliant. The moderators here at MobileRead have inspected every author in the library and compared it to life+70.
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If this is the case, my “ideas” are no different than yours. The only problem I'm creating is that
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Originally Posted by Jellby
Indeed, the library is basically life+70, but it also holds other books which are not public domain, including (but not limited to): copyrighted translations uploaded to Project Gutenberg, for which redistribution is allowed (probably with some conditions); Creative Commons works; works uploaded by the author (whether or not it is OK to redistribute them, is up to the author, we only know we can host them, because the author uploaded them).
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contradicts what you've just stated. Could you please resolve what's actually true? If life+70/CC0 without exception is the policy, I then would notify the German uploaders who uploaded restrictively licensed works, so they take their uploads down (no difference if users get those works by manually downloading them or as part of the entire library). Or could it be the case that you've checked those uploads and that they're in the Public Domain, with only those uploaders thinking wrongfully that they're not? Then it wouldn't matter what the uploader thinks or wants to restrict.
After all, I'm just looking into what 8142 EPUBs actually means.
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- In 2007, somebody posted mobileread ebooks on the Usenet, and it was made clear that there were restrictively licensed works among them. If the library is life+70/CC0, then all of those works have been removed from the library by now.
- In 2011, it became apparent that somebody sold the e-books from mobileread burned on a CD-ROM. Mobileread moderators made the guy discontinue the product, another user obtained a cease and desist letter from him. This would have happened without legal foundation if the works would be all life+70/CC0. Some users mentioned that trademark law could be a reason for restrictive licensing, and for German uploads the „Leistungsschutzrecht“ (protection of the effort somebody put into it) could also be a reason.
- Also in 2011, somebody redistributed ebooks from mobileread gratis, without mentioning mobileread as the source. One user suggested that mobileread is financed by advertising and therefore doesn't want other sources to distribute the same files. It seems no action was taken.
- In 2015, one or more individuals uploaded e-books to Kobo Writing Life and sold them, so some uploaders got their titles with original content removed. They interpreted the Posting Guidelines to permit any Creative Commons license, but not other licenses, and were in favor of CC BY-SA-NC (especially the NC clause to prevent such instances from happening in the future again).
- In 2015, as a user redistributed the library obtained from my downloader, one uploader stated that at least one of his uploads is not in the Public Domain and threatened with “serious consequences”. This uploader and a second one asked for removal of their uploads from the external public copy of the German EPUBs. A moderator removed links to this external mirror, maybe not because of legal reasons, but because of respecting the wishes of the authors. Via PM, another uploader told me that he wants to prohibit any commercial use, despite the fact that his works are in the Public Domain. He refused to tell me how he wanted to achieve this, especially after he has uploaded some of the files to a company which does use them commercially.