[Web4lib] Amazon Deletes Orwell from Kindles

[Brian Gray]

The linked to article (
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/18/technology/companies/18amazon.html?_r=1)
stated copyright on "1984" does not expire until 2044 in the United States.
Has Gutenberg provided a different version?

Brian Gray
mindspiral at gmail.com


On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 10:14 PM, Lloyd Davidson
<ldavids at northwestern.edu>wrote:

> Just because a book appears on Project Gutenberg doesn't mean it's
> copyright free, it simply means no one has bothered to send them a Cease and
> Desist order, probably because they are such an insignificant player in the
> online publishing world.   Now that you've made it public that they have
> copies of such copyrighted works, perhaps publishers will begin to pay more
> attention to their online content.