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So yeah, this guy's likely violating US copyrights too. |
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If the works are public domain in the US, there is no copyright on any version of the text, as far as the US is concerned.
There probably isn't a copyright on the HTML/CSS. There may be a copyright on the cover. If there is original content, such as a forward, afterword or some other word, that is copyrighted. |
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One option might be to publish the cover art under a license that doesn't allow commercial use, like CC BY-NC SA 3.0. Then one could try and ask the store selling the book to remove it so that Kbook guy might at least be forced to come up with his own covers like all the other scam publishers... |
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It depends on the country. In the US, I don't think there is any remedy, but in the UK, there's a 25 year copyright on layout.
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I think there was an article on the digital reader about something else. In it it was said, that in the US copyright requires original work. And just changing the layout etc. is not considered as adding original work to the text. So this is scam but unfortunately legal.
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Cover design is a different story though. It's not as if Kbook were the first publisher with this business model, but the others at least changed the covers. Kbook is the first to sell books from MR (and elsewhere) just as found, without changing anything. If you look at the preview of pynch's Edith Wharton you will even see "Version 1.1, December 2012, by pynch." ![]() So cover design is new creative work and most certainly protected by copyright. Might be the basis for a complaint to Kobo if one finds one's own upload there. |
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Ah but what if someone does a new translation of a book from one language to another? For example if they doa new translation of Jules verne's "20,000 Leagues Under the Seas." If they do a translation from French to English even if the book is PD doesn't that count as a copyright violation if someone else does as the person mentioned in the OP has done?
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ETA: But for the same reason, a new translation can't be in the MR library, unless the translator him- or herself uploaded it. |
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Is the Sherlock Holmes Omnibus available in the US on Kobo? If so, we should point the Conan Doyle estate to it. They're pretty fierce about protecting their remaining US copyrights in the later stories.
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HarryT is in the UK and he created the Sherlock Holmes Omnibus. So your saying his layout has a 25 year copyright? If that's so, can these kBook thieves be taken to to court for copyright infringement?
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I do like pdurrant's idea, let's sic the Conan Doyle estate on them. ![]() |
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