[Web4lib] Amazon Deletes Orwell from Kindles

[Paul Donaghy]

The Gutenberg version is hosted by Gutenberg Australia where, as the NY
Times article states, copyright on 1984 has already expired.

Cheers

Paul Donaghy
Systems & Support Services Manager
Children's Services and Culture
L. B. Richmond upon Thames
E-mail: p.donaghy at richmond.gov.uk
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I am currently reading:
The Trouble with Physics by Lee Smolin; and
Jupiter's Travels: four years around the world on a Triumph by Ted Simon
(again!)
 
P Save paper - do you really need to print this e mail?

-----Original Message-----
From: web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org
[mailto:web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org] On Behalf Of Brian Gray
Sent: 18 July 2009 15:14
To: Lloyd Davidson
Cc: Web4lib at webjunction.org
Subject: Re: [Web4lib] Amazon Deletes Orwell from Kindles

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.
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