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Old 11-30-2015, 03:56 AM   #14
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... another user obtained a cease and desist letter from him. This would have happened without legal foundation if the works would be all life+70/CC0 ...
As DaleDe explained:

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We do have some cc eBooks with the license in the book for non-commercial use.
And exactly this was the case. The letter (which, by the way, was not followed by a bill for a legal fee for the violator as it could have been) concerned one special title and the addressee of the letter admitted the violation without delay.

Concerning ebooks for which MR-members created own front pages there is (at least under german law) another aspect to keep in mind, that you are well aware of:

If the font page contains a design that qualifies as a new work of craft or art, copyright exists for the creator. If the front page contains any photography which was created by the person who did create the front page, copyright for the photographer exists. This is, of course, also true for any such works embedded in the text of the ebook. As a result there could be claims concerning the complete ebook-file.

I case of splitting front page (or illustrations) and text, the next question that arises would be that of the protection of a special layout, special fonts etc. etc.

So on the whole I tend to agree with doubleshuffles statement on the matter.

My expectation would be that if one tries (after loads and loads of interesting legal review of masses of individual titles) to make the whole library compliant to the project you have in mind, another library, or rather two or more of them would result and much be lost.

(And that's the point where you can picture the old guy on the bench in front of the house saying: "Naa, wouldn't be the Patricia Clark Memorial Library then. Need some new names too."

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