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Originally Posted by DMcCunney
If I'm a rights holder, my concern isn't the law, it's revenue. Copyright law is relevant insofar as it allows me to defend my rights and (hopefully) generate revenue. So my actions will be pragmatic, based on what I feel I stand to gain or avoid losing. PG US has a lot of Wodehouse stuff up because it's now PD in the US. I haven't heard of the Wodehouse estate trying to make PG impose download restrictions on places where it isn't PD. What would the benefit be?
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But this, if you recall, Dennis, was precisely the reason that Amazon pulled George Orwell's "Nineteen Eighty-Four". It had been uploaded via the Mobipocket "eBookBase" system by a publisher for whom it was in the public domain, and found its way to Amazon, which it shouldn't have done. The book is still in copyright in the US, and has a US rights-holder, who (not unreasonably) objected to this violation of their rights (they were selling the "legit" US edition in the Kindle store), leading to Amazon pulling the edition that wasn't legal to sell in the US.