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: Copyfight - The Politics of IPWorld e-Book Faire
By Posted by Alan Wexelblat
Project Gutenberg and the World Public Library are co-promoting a month-long event with that name. Their theme is one of "public access" and they're offering something like two million eBooks for download.
I haven't investigated completely but it appears that all the offered downloads are in PDF format without any DRM or other electronic encumbrances. (One can argue that PDF isn't as good as text, for any number of reasons, but that's a separate issue.)
Full post as published by Copyfight - The Politics of IP on July 02, 2009 (boomark / email).
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