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Old 07-07-2009, 04:30 PM   #8
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Originally Posted by pshrynk View Post
Book uploads at MobileRead are either in the PD, or are uploaded under a CC license. Commercial use of CC licensed products is not allowed. Commercial use of the PD books here might be considered tacky, but probably not illegal.
1. Do people explicitly affirm this during the upload process? Or might some uploaders be under the impression that they hold some copyright to their uploaded public domain works?

2. How might commercial use be made less tacky or altogether non-tacky? I have published a corrected/restored edition of Sun Tzu's Art of War (the public domain Lionel Giles translation) and would probably have had an easier time had I started from a source not in as poor a shape as the Project Gutenberg etext is.

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