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Originally Posted by Robotech_Master
Unfortunately for Project Gutenberg, the principle pretty much already is widely accepted. Commercial ebook stores aren't allowed to compete with local license holders.
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Ironically, this is basically the same reason that Amazon blundered so badly so many years ago, when it removed Orwell books customers had purchased from their Kindles. The Orwell books were in the public domain in the UK, but not in the US, so their sale in the US was illegal--so Amazon overreacted and got its fingers burned.
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The Orwell Kafuffle took place in 2009. Orwell died in 1950 so the books were copyright-free only in Life+50 countries such as Canada & Australia - the UK and the EU having traded up to Life+70
If someone runs a US publisher site which allows e-book sales world wide, can the UK publisher of the same book require them to install geographical restrictions on their servers?
If so, has this ever happened?