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Originally Posted by HarryT
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?
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How does a physical bookstore know that it is authorized to sell the pBooks that it carries? How does Fictionwise know that they are authorized to sell the eBooks that they carry?
Is verifying every user's uploaded content going to be really difficult... absolutely. IMO, it's a bad idea to begin with. However, that doesn't mean they can just ignore the copyright issue.