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Are books available from Project Gutenberg allowed on Mobileread?
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Why wouldn't they be? If you mean the main project, not the Australia and Canadian sites.
Edit: USA Magazines got the author's copyright and then if the magazine didn't renew, the work became PD (in the USA). So not all Gutenberg USA content is actually author's life +70, which is the Mobileread rule. it's complicated. Complain to Disney and USA Government. Edit 2: Then there are works that are publishing house names. No point in looking up death of Laura Hope, Franklin Dixon, Caroline Keen and others. Some will be PD and some not. Those people never existed. Some of the best Caroline Keen were by Mildred Birt. Last edited by Quoth; Today at 07:26 AM. |
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Some would be, some wouldn't. It's not a black-and-white yes or no, you have to do the research to find out when an author or illustrating artist died. If the author/artist died before 1954 (year of death 1953 or earlier) you should be good to upload here. MobileRead, whose servers are based in Europe, follows European copyright law, so life of the author plus 70 years. Project Gutenberg is US-based and follows US copyright law: "PG is entirely based in the US, and we follow the United States laws for copyright. Not all items that are public domain in the US are public domain in other countries, and vice versa. If you are operating outside of the US, you should get professional guidance on how to proceed for things like redistributing Project Gutenberg’s content. For basic information about copyright elsewhere, try this link to the Online books page." There will be SOME overlap, i.e. books that are public domain in the USA and *also* in Europe. But it's definitely NOT every book that is available from Project Gutenberg. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk Last edited by graycyn; Today at 01:48 PM. Reason: Bolded some relevant text. |
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True, true words. Complicated and head-banging, hair-pulling FRUSTRATING!
I've a book. Non-fiction. Limited edition, only 850 copies printed, first published in 1930. So, two more years until public domain in USA. Fun facts, the author died young, sudden heart attack, in 1940. So you think YAY, MobileRead eligible! Not so fast. The primary reason the book has any value are the ILLUSTRATIONS, which are lavish, and in case of the black-and-white illustrations, mostly sketched on site, DURING, and of the events the author is narrating! The book has become much harder to find because people literally CUT UP COPIES to sell the illustrations separately as wall art on eBay. The author only wrote ONE book. Not a writer by profession, though his text is kind of fun. Much of the book is illustration! So it doesn't feel right to present the text without the accompanying illustration. The illustrator is well-known and very collected. But HE didn't die until 1958, so FIVE more years before MR eligible. Meanwhile, the whole shebang is public domain as far as I can determine, under Canadian copyright law. It is, indeed, complicated! Last edited by graycyn; Today at 01:47 PM. |
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I am contemplating doing this next year with the 1929 illustrated version of Black Storm. |
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