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Old 06-20-2010, 10:00 PM   #5
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Originally Posted by Poppa1956 View Post
I am curious as to why it's allowed to continue in places here, if it is not in the PD.
The governing law for Mobile Read is of country where server is located. Which happens to be Canada. The Canadian copyright law places in public domain works 50 years after author's death. So, it is in public domain, you just happened to hail from the country where copyright laws are different.
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