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Originally Posted by BookCat
Please clear up a related confusion I have. Does the length of copyright depend upon the writer's country of birth (eg America) or the potential downloader's geographical location?
Please don't all hit me at once if I was wrong to do this. I was recently looking at the Canadian Gutenberg, which is life plus 50, but couldn't find any John Steinbeck, yet he died long enough ago to fall into this category. Is it because he lived in the states and his works are subject to US copyright?
I probably shouldn't have been doing this because I live in a life plus 70 country, but I didn't actually download anything.
Please clear up my confusion: is it the author's birthplace/where he lived which matters, or are other factors more important?
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It says right on the Faded Page web site, main page, top of the page, "These books are public domain in Canada (because we follow the Canadian copyright laws), but if you are in another country, you should satisfy yourself that you are not breaking the copyright laws of your own country by downloading them." The other sites say something similar. On the Project Gutenberg main page, the Terms of Use section it says "Our eBooks may be freely used in the United States because most are not protected by U.S. copyright law, usually because their copyrights have expired. They may not be free of copyright in other countries. Readers outside of the United States must check the copyright terms of their countries before downloading or redistributing our eBooks."