Thread: Why is The Mysterious Affair at Styles offline when it's legal to be here?
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Old 12-30-2020, 03:17 PM   #7
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Originally Posted by JSWolf View Post
But why remove perfectly legal public domain eBooks regardless of life+70? The Mysterious Affair at Styles is perfectly legal to post here. There are a number of copies on Amazon US because it's legally public domain.

It's up on Project Gutenberg because the copyright was not renewed and puts it in the public domain.
It’s on PG because it was published in the US in 1920 and thus in the US public domain. Its copyright in Europe and other Life + 70 areas won’t expire until 2047. MobileRead observes Life + 70 because of server location and the nationality of its owner. Ηowever, what is legal for people to download depends on where they are, irrespective of whether or not a book is in the public domain elsewhere. So even if the MR copy of Styles were available, someone who wasn’t physically in the US couldn’t legally download it anyway.
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