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Originally Posted by Andanzas
Just out of curiosity, I searched the book I am reading right now and the copyright is right there, in the summary. You don't even need to open the document to see it.  |
Yep. Every book in creation issued since copyright became common will have a copyright notice and date.
But the mere presence of a copyright notice does not mean the work is illegally posted. See the Baen Free Library, or any of the stuff offered under a Creative Commons license.
Not to mention the fact that Mr. Pirate could easily strip copyright notice out of an electronic edition if he though you were looking for it.
Back to square one...
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Dennis