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There are many things that you can download for free off the Internet. That doesn't mean that they aren't protected by copyright.
by rcfox 13y ago
There are many things that you can download for free off the Internet. That doesn't mean that they aren't protected by copyright.
- thrownaway2424 13y agoIt seemed like a reasonable assumption that a 90-year-old book was in the public domain.
- davidjohnstone 13y 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 13y agoThey may be copyrighted, but they aren't "protected".
- dredmorbius 13y agoThe broader point is that material which is lawfully distributable in some jurisdictions is not legal in others.