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Quote: "I was told that the reason [for being suspended from Google Play] was that I had been selling public domain books." This should have been the title of
by lutusp 12y ago
Quote: "I was told that the reason [for being suspended from Google Play] was that I had been selling public domain books."
This should have been the title of the submission.
- estnon 12y agogoogle play is full of public domain books. despite amazon and apple, there is no clear policy against it.
- readerrrr 12y agoI thought selling public domain content is legal.
- dragonwriter 12y agoSure. So what? That something is legal for you to do independently does not mean it is allowed by the Google Play terms.
- readerrrr 12y agoI doubt there is anything in the terms that prohibits that.
- estnon 12y agoeven if a policy violation appears after over 6 months, that doesn't mean that google takes all the money on the table.
- lutusp 12y agoConsider this from Google's position -- they see an activity that will make them look irresponsible or in collusion. To minimize damage to their reputation, they might want to stop the activity even if they can't fairly redistribute the ill-gotten gains afterward. Also, if legal authority decided to step in, Google would minimize their own liability and exposure by stopping the activity rather than by allowing it to continue. It also serves as a warning to others who might want to sell content they don't own -- it discourages a repetition of the same behavior.
- lutusp 12y agoThat depends on the details. Did the seller explain that he was selling free content? if there was any deception, then the crime is not in the sale, but in the method -- possible misrepresentation or fraud.
- DanBC 12y agoYou don't know if it was deceptive or if there was some kind of value-add.
- lutusp 12y agoTrue, but I think the original poster would have mentioned this if it were true. But consider -- how do you value-add a public domain work without getting into copyright problems? It's not as though he wrote a book of criticism or satire of existing works.
- DanBC 12y ago> But consider -- how do you value-add a public domain work without getting into copyright problems? You curate them and offer collections based on theme. You typeset them carefully and print them on nice paper. You digitally typeset them and give them a carefully created CSS file.