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Originally Posted by GtrsRGr8
I suppose that someone's always allowed to read books online (i.e., without downloading them) regardless of their copyright status. So, it looks like a researcher who reads a document online, and references the document, is safe. But, again, who knows?
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I was wondering about this as well. I agree that reading them online is most likely allowed.
In a similar vein, suppose you're from a life+70 country and go to Canada with a laptop. In Canada it's life+50. If you download some books from Faded Page that aren't yet public domain in your country, that would be legal, but what should you do when you get back to your home country? I think something like this happened with a woman from Finland who while in London bought or downloaded a kindle book from Amazon that wasn't available in Finland and Amazon deleted it from her kindle later on. There was a big brouhaha over it and they later restored it.
The internet and digitizing is making copyrights a muddled mess.