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As someone who has tried to buy things from outside US that are restricted to the US market, I can say that Amazon does certainly enforce country restrictions. So that would explain why it isn't being sued. These restrictions are typically based on contracts Amazon has with suppliers. You could try...

Mr Irons is setting a dangerous precedent here. Suppose a composer born and lived in Mexico his whole life and sold the copyrights of his work to UE. Would UE claim copyright for the work using Mexican copyright law of life+100 years worldwide where most countries have only life+50? Think about it....

In addition to the poll options, I would say, putting to detailed copyright information on your site for jurisdictions outside your own may be construed to the effect that you are actually directing at those jurisdictions, and thus be an implicit acceptance of the laws of those jurisdictions. For th...

A layman asks: is it possible to run more than one server in countries with different copyright? Or is there no point in that? If a single individual or organization is doing this, this would establish quite clearly that you are playing the system to evade law. Although you might be able to get awa...

If there is any suggestion of hosting with Gutenberg, I would be unhappy. Gutenberg claims to *only* have to operate under US law. I think it is more sensible for an international site to respect international requirements while strictly complying with the law. Until Gutenberg attempts to describe ...

IMSLP doesn't to spread out and disband its scores to all across the Internet just because it is down for a few months. It is better to be tight and in control than being all over the place. Take a lesson from Biology. Information is the most costly asset you have. The best way to protect it is to ...

Unfortunately, there is no universal "copyright" and "public domain". It changes from country to country, since countries are sovereign. Thus you have to respect the law of the country where you distribute the works. It's not that one country's law is enforced in another country...

1. Janacek's country of origin is Czechoslovakia, not Spain. While it is certainly possible that his works are protected in Spain, it is also entirely possible that Spain's life-plus-80 term applies only to Spanish authors. He is public domain in the rest of the EU. Applying Spain's life+80 years t...

Project Gutenberg has been in operation for more than 20 years, and, although it has received a few Cease & Desist letters, these were never followed up after the short replies that can be read on the pglaf.org server. Some of those publishers have real money, but apparently they did not want to...

Let start with saying that current copyright is unreasonable long, and that a shorter term will be a great win for everybody, including the public and artists, excepting maybe alone a few bullying rent-seeking publishers of old materials. (And even these would do a bigger service to mankind if they ...

At the same time you click and download, the owner of the website distributes the work. Both are illegal, but it is easier to go after the distributor than the end user. There are fewer of them and they are the big fish. At least that's what copyright owner chose to do. Many countries have private ...

IMSLP distributes sheet music. It does that worldwide. You have to abide the laws of the country where you are distributing. If the work you are distributing is not in the public domain in a certain country then you simply can't distribute it there. You may still be able to distribute it somewhere ...

Unfortunately, their was no legal basis in your claims, which, to add insult to injury, includes works of composers also in the Public Domain in Austria. This site was operating meticulously to follow the laws of Canada, in which it was operating. It has no legal obligation under Canadian law to fol...

On the contrary, they most certainly have. Part of the point of extended copyright is that it recognises that publishers will use it to subsidise the publication of material by new authors/composers, who in turn, decades down the line, will subsidise..... So Boosey and Hawkes (the publisher whose c...

Project Gutenberg (a US based organization) has a number of stock replies on-line to similar checks (see http://cand.pglaf.org/), that simply state that the work complained about is in the Public Domain in the US, and that US copyright law nowhere places people under the obligation to implement IP b...