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Originally Posted by Patricia
This may not be so. The author may well have added the condition that the book is for personal use only. In which case, you shouldn't be redistributing it.
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What I'm getting at is that the Internet's very nature is replicating data. Anything you post on the web is going to get copied by web caches, Internet archives, local disk caches, etc. Back in the USENET days if you posted it on USENET it got distributed everywhere. So I'm suggesting that if you go so far as to put it up on the Internet you've giving up any control over redistribution rights. But, maybe I'm wrong. It's just how I *feel* in my gut at the moment.
Naturally if you attach the appropriate license you might be able to specify such exceptions, but a lot of files are simply offered without any corresponding legal notice.