Thread: Can free e-books be pirated?
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Old 01-30-2017, 12:50 AM   #37
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Originally Posted by Katsunami View Post
Distributing the book is not one of the points here.

Even when you BUY 20.000 Leagues under the Sea, or get it for free from a site that made the ebook such as Feedbooks.com, you can't distribute it. Even though the text is out of copyright, you're still not allowed to actually distribute the book made by someone else as far as I know.

I'm talking about if *getting* the book for yourself, trough an old, archived copy of the giveaway page, is piracy or not, after the giveaway has ended and the book becomes unavailable or not free.
And aren't new translations under copyright even if the book isn't? I mean take "Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Seas" as an example again. It was originally in French and then translated. If I make a new translation then even if the book itself is in the PD then it would seem that my copy (in a new translation) would be under copyright.
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