What if the book is copyrighted in some countries, but public domain in others?
Consider first whether it’s copyrighted in your own country (or the country where your Web site is located, if that’s different). I will generally list books on the Online Books Page if they’re public domain in the countries they’re being served from. However, if they are not yet public domain in the US (where this page is located) I will include a warning mentioning this. As far as I’m aware, there are not yet hard-and-fast rules on the distribution of legal responsibility for downloading etexts from a country where they’re public domain to a country where they’re not. But I would at the least include a warning if you know that some of the texts you serve are copyrighted in some countries. And I would avoid downloading texts from other countries that are copyrighted in your own country.
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