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Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel
if the texts are pd in canada then there is absolutely no reason why we shouldn't. hopefully they'll appear soon on gutenberg or some kind-hearted person will go to the trouble of scanning them as a personal project.
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Well, Zelda, there may be a reason. Some estate have sued and/or demanded takedown notices to Canadian servers posting books that are PD in Canada but not in, say, the US. The Margaret Mitchell estate is notorious for this, that is why
Gone With the Wind is not on the Mobile Read server. It's been public domain in Canada for a decade (died 1949). It's available on PG Australia, grandfathered in when the US free trade agreement forced them to go from life + 50 to life + 70.
To fight the demand has been more money than any Canadian website has been willing to host, so there is no case law to refer to. That chilling precedent may affect what Mobile Read is willing to host, so I was basically asking Alex whether there was a policy.
(And smile when you call me a lawyer....)