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Amusingly, I wanted to read Gatsby on a plane trip, so at the airport I Googled for it and downloaded the PDF from some Australian university's site. Then I re
by thrownaway2424 14y ago
Amusingly, I wanted to read Gatsby on a plane trip, so at the airport I Googled for it and downloaded the PDF from some Australian university's site. Then I read the whole thing. Later someone mentioned that it was still copyrighted and I argued that obviously not, it was freely available. But apparently not in the USA :-/
- rcfox 14y agoThere are many things that you can download for free off the Internet. That doesn't mean that they aren't protected by copyright.
- thrownaway2424 14y agoIt seemed like a reasonable assumption that a 90-year-old book was in the public domain.
- davidjohnstone 14y agoAustralia has an author's death plus fifty years copyright expiration for books where the author died in or before 1954. Unfortunately, I think we're "catching up" to the US with our copyright laws. There's http://gutenberg.net.au/ http://gutenberg.net.au/ (no formal relationship with Project Gutenberg) which makes works available that are public domain in Australia (but not the US), and this has The Great Gatsby.
- jopof 14y agoThey may be copyrighted, but they aren't "protected".
- dredmorbius 14y agoThe broader point is that material which is lawfully distributable in some jurisdictions is not legal in others.