Fwd: [Clipart] Project Guttenberg books

[Michael Moore]

> Yes,the books in project Gutenberg are all PD! Yes!
>
> http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:No_Cost_or_Freedom%3F
>
> So, they are public domain in the USA, but maybe not in other countries,
> but other countries have treaties to support USA copyright law, so they
> are public domain/free and safe for us to use...good logic?

My $0.02. In most cases that's probably true.

There are some exceptions where you'd expect the book to be completely
in the PD, but it's not (in some countries). The example that comes to
mind is the KJV of the Bible, in the UK.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perpetual_copyright

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