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Re:Standard Ebooks by Aeolun on Sunday July 24, 2022 @09:12PM (#32219521)
The list for accepting ebooks makes a lot of sense, but I noted that public domain books are excluded. What is the reason for that?
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Re:Standard Ebooks by macintux on Monday July 25, 2022 @09:18AM (#32223825)
I’m neither associated with the project nor a lawyer, but I can speculate: afaik U.S. copyright law doesn’t explicitly allow someone to declare a text to be in the public domain.
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