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Re: [tor-talk] Project Gutenberg
On 31.10.2013 19:38, Lars Noodén wrote:
On 10/31/2013 09:07 PM, antispam06@xxxxxxx wrote:
AFAIK you don't need permission for creating a mirror. After all,
the works are in the Public Domain.
The original works are in the public domain, but the new, electronic
editions may not be. But either way, their issue is with spidering
and the load it puts on their net. They might be amenable to a
hidden mirror, but someone would have to contact them and work that
out, if there is someone able and willing to try hosting it.
I did the work for you.
Quoting from an epub:
This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with
almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or
re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included
with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org
I don't know how new is that. But it sure is downloaded the day I
discovered the piece of advice given by the project regarding Tor.
The Terms of Use[1] says nothing incompatible with VPN, anonymizers, or
Tor. From the License I quote[2]:
These books are in the public domain in the United States and
everybody — including Project Gutenberg and *you* — may read and
distribute them. If you don't live in the United States you'll have
to check the laws of the country you live in before downloading and
distributing our ebooks.
A Project Gutenberg ebook is made out of two parts: the public
domain book and the non public domain Project Gutenberg trademark and
license. If you strip the Project Gutenberg license and all
references to Project Gutenberg from the ebook, you are left with a
public domain ebook. You can do anything you want with that.
There are also copyrighted books, but they are uninteresting to the
general public. They are just a way of promoting the work through PG by
putting them under a compatible licence:
Some authors give Project Gutenberg permission to distribute their
book(s). This permission does not automatically expand to include
you. If you want to distribute a copyrighted ebook you found on PG,
you have to contact the author and stipulate an agreement.
N.B. The catalog will tell you if an ebook is copyrighted, but
sometimes the catalog is wrong. Always look at the license inside
the ebook to tell if it is copyrighted or not.
The whole thing is written once more in the Permission Howto[3]:
Permission not needed
[1] http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Terms_of_Use
[2] http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:The_Project_Gutenberg_License
[3] http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Permission_How-To
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