Book People Archive

Re: Copyright extension

As you may be aware, I have recently been encouraging the startup of
Project Gutenberg "life +50" sites. . .which may possibly have been
part of the cause of this discussion.

I don't yet know how much I can legally say or do in these cases,
so I am being VERY conservative in what I say. . . .

If ANY of you have ANY leads to helping us find any international
copyright law people, PLEASE let me know!!!

We should form an independent group of people living in "life +50"
countries to handle this, and I would be happy to give permission
to use the Project Gutenberg name for any of these sites, as I
have with gutenberg.pt in Portugual, gutenberg.ph in the Phillipines
and hope to do with many more.


Thanks!

So nice to hear from you!


Michael S. Hart
<hart@[redacted]>
Project Gutenberg
"Ask Dr. Internet"
Executive Director
Internet User ~#100


On Wed, 18 Jul 2001, John Mark Ockerbloom wrote:

> Generally speaking, for The On-Line Books Page, I'll consider books
> that are in the public domain in the country from which they're
> being served (or that are on-line with permission).  As I describe
> in my "okbooks" file, I'd make an exception for "export havens"
> with no effective copyright law, but I haven't actually heard of any
> relevant servers in such countries.  Since I'm in the US, I also
> include a warning about books that I know to be still copyrighted here,
> if they're not on-line with permission but are in the public domain
> in the country hosting the book.  So far, this seems to be a workable
> approach for the index.
> 
> John Mark Ockerbloom