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Old 04-12-2010, 12:58 PM   #36
Elfwreck
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Originally Posted by Robertb View Post
Google free eBooks are only USA at present. We are fighting with Google to make this international. It is in the works. We want Global; but Google wants territories.
Google's free ebooks are only guaranteed to be public domain in the US. Some (many?) are still covered by copyright in other countries; that's why they can't release them for free outside the US. Google isn't spending the time & effort to sort out which of them are in the public domain in which countries.

Of course, there's the question of where they're releasing them--like purchase of ebooks, there's no obvious law that says "location of the transaction should be considered to be the physical residence of the downloader, not the storage server."
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