07-29-2010, 04:28 PM | #1 |
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I have found several books on this site that were unavailable on Project Gutenberg USA - sometimes because of copyright issues.
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07-29-2010, 04:57 PM | #2 |
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Project Gutenberg only stores ebooks that were prepared under the Gutenberg project. There are other sources of books, including private persons that scan books. That's one source of difference. The other one is the fact that MR stores the books in Canada, which has life+50 copyright. Australia used to have that too, but has changed to life+70, but this does not apply to books that were already out of copyright at the time of the change. There may also be some other minor differences in the copyright.
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Please remember that you are breaking copyright law if you download a book which is not in the public domain in your country.
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That's not true for all countries, Harry. Here in the Netherlands, I can download books that are not in the public domain here without breaking any law.
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I believe Australian copyright duration was altered as a condition of the free trade agreement with the US. Though I often wonder about the true definition of "free". |
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If you're correct then I suspect that Netherland's download law says that the laws of the jurisdiction from which you're downloading will apply-at least regarding copyright. But that doesn't change the fact that you're still subject to Netherland's law if you're downloading while in the Netherlands. |
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Yup, Calvin. Unlike shipped treebooks where point-of-sale is point of dispatch, ebooks' point-of-sale (also for freebies) is considered to be the point of download and local copyright regulations apply. Cheers.
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Sure, Netherlands laws apply when downloading in the Netherlands, and Netherlands law allows me to download any movie, book or piece of music I can find on the internet, whether or not it was uploaded legally and regardless of what country I'm downloading from. Perhaps unbelievable, but it's really as simple as that. It works like this: Dutch law allows us to make a 'backup' of books, movies and mp3s, but there is no requirement that you actually own a legal copy before you're allowed to make this backup. A download from the Internet is considered such a backup. In other words, I'm allowed to make backups of materials I don't own. The Dutch government has announced that over time they will make downloading materials from illegal sources also illegal, but they won't do so until adequate legal alternatives are available. Current webshops are certainly not considered adequate alternatives. So it's up to the entertainment industry now to do something about their business models. As long as they don't, we can download what we want. (This only applies to music, books and movies. For games and software other laws apply. You are not allowed to download those from illegal sources.) |
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The EU leaves its members the choice to either have a levy or forbid private copying. Or even both but that would lead to a big public outcry, I suppose. |
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