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Originally Posted by HarryT
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.
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Hum, sounds good. But if the new law includes criminal prosecution things change. Suppose I'm a Canadian and I drive down to the US for a protest against something the ABC Administration is doing. Suppose I bring my eBook reader along and suppose it has books that are public domain in Canada and copyrighted in the US. Can I be held at the border or prosecuted?
I suppose I'm really asking if I can take my eBook reader along if I travel outside my own country, and whether I can buy books over the Internet from bookstores outside my own country without fear of violating a copyright somewhere.