Thread: Does UK copyright apply to AUS sourced material?
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Old 05-27-2009, 08:33 AM   #25
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Originally Posted by Jellby View Post
Would be legal to have someone download public domain books in Canada and then sending a CD (just charging for the shipping and physical support) to Europe? Then I see some reasons for MobileRead to offer CDs or DVDs with the books it hosts...
What an interesting question. I have no idea. For that matter, I'm not sure whether it would be legal to print the books in Canada, and then sell them abroad by mail order.

It certainly wouldn't be legal for someone in the UK to then make more copies of the items in the CD. Say, but copying them to their ebook reader. I think it would be legal to read them 'directly' off the CD on a computer, as I vaguely recall some right to temporary copies.

Copyright certainly does need a refresh, A shame that in the US it's currently being done by class-action instead of by legislation.
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