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Originally Posted by Abzeronow
So PG will have to make adjustments so they stay within the law if they wish to have international site traffic.
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Project Gutenberg Canada has to say about that:
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Canada is not a colony of the United States and its corporations, or of any other country. Canadians and no one else determine our laws. Trade agreements are about tariffs and similar matters, not about hijacking another country's laws and confiscating their citizens' property -- the public domain.
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It would be an enormous and impractical job for Project Gutenberg Canada to figure out what is under copyright in which country and geo-block accordingly. So they don't.
This year, compliance is fairly easy for the American Project Gutenberg site because they are only facing one lawsuit, and little on their site isn't public domain almost everywhere. That changes next January when the US starts having an annual public domain day with unique rules leading to many books becoming public domain in the US last, while others go to US public domain first.