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Originally Posted by snarkophilus
I've got an archive of the University of Adelaide ebooks. I'm in Australia, I'd be happy to make it available if I knew it was ok to do.
I'll send off an email to the Uni library contact address and see what they say.
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I've got a few, and the notice they have in them says:
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This web edition published by eBooks@Adelaide.
Last updated Wednesday, December 17, 2014 at 14:17.
To the best of our knowledge, the text of this work is in the “Public Domain” in Australia.
HOWEVER, copyright law varies in other countries, and the work may still be under copyright in the country from which you are accessing this website. It is your responsibility to check the applicable copyright laws in your country before downloading this work.
eBooks@Adelaide
The University of Adelaide Library
University of Adelaide
South Australia 5005
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That's the only thing resembling a copyright notice, which is annoying since they might later claim the layout, images etc are copyright.
Also, the title page has the university crest on it.
So I would be surprised if you get a go-ahead from the university. If they pulled their own site to cover their backsides, they would never authorise anyone else to distribute these with their names on them. I hope I'm wrong.
Easy for me to say, but I'd just go ahead and upload them and it's pretty unlikely they would notice. The "public domain" statement in the books provides some cover if they ever should.