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Originally Posted by 6charlong
I trust you Harry, although we've never met, but what if I lived in Bohemia? What is the copyright law there? And how do I find out what the copyright is for the millions of books Google is digitizing?
I actually think an international treaty is needed, but I don't know exactly what I want it to contain.
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There already is an international treaty - the Berne Copyright Convention, to which pretty much every country in the world (with a handful of exceptions) is a signatory.
Basically, all that has to concern you is whether or not a book is in the public domain in the US, where you live. As a broad guideline, anything published before 1923 is in the US public domain.