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Originally Posted by Shaggy
I think Amazon definitely has some responsibility here to make sure that content they are selling is authorized before they do so. Whether the content on their store comes from their internal business units, or from uploaders, doesn't matter. Since they are the ones selling/distributing it, they need to verify it.
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But practically speaking, Shaggy, how do you think they might do that?
It's reasonably straightforward to determine whether or not a book is in the public domain, but what if you find that it isn't? How could Amazon determine whether or not the uploader has the legal right to sell it? I think that as a matter of practicality, really all they can do is to require the uploader to declare that they have the right, and that's precisely what happens now.
Do you have any suggestions as to what else they might do?