As a distributor, AFAIK, Sony would only be liable if they did not 'to the best of their knowledge' ascertain whether or not you are the original copyright holder. IE, they ask you, and probably make you sign something stating such and that you assume full liability for any and all copyright infringements. If you say yes I am the copyright holder for "A cheap copy of Heinlein" then they are set. If it turns out that you ripped "A cheap copy of Heinlein" straight from his works and are *not* the copyright holder then you are directly liable, and Sony just points the lawyers in the right direction.
If they get a bunch of garbage submitted, well, buyer beware. There's a lot of garbage on iTunes as well. I don't go willy nilly buying songs off of it unless I know the band and have heard the song previously.
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Originally Posted by yvanleterrible
But they still have to filter out, in some way, the possible liability creating works that exist. Do the companies that translate furnish such service? Do they have access to proof readers? Are there enough reading critics hired to sift through what garbage there could be?
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