They settled their 2015 lawsuit and will only be blocking these specific works.
More information and Background: https://cand.pglaf.org/germany/index.html
Project Gutenberg is no longer fully blocked in Germany
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#2Fischer being the cunts they are.
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#3Better submit an URL and your post as a comment :)
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#4This is great news! This is a wonderful project, and the fact that it wasn't accessible from Germany made me profoundly sad and angry.
I hope the responsible copyright lawyers have a hard time sleeping because of this and consider changing their line of work. If you are blocking people from reading books in the public domain, it is a good indication that you are one of the bad guys.
Even worse, they only blocked people from Germany that didn't know how to use a VPN. German courts really don't get how the internet works.
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#5I had forgotten about this. Absurd it went on so long.
As it happens I'm currently reading Thomas Man's English translation of Death in Venice from Gutenberg.
That doesn't seem to be included in the embargoed texts.
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#6This is great news! This is a wonderful project, and the fact that it wasn't accessible from Germany made me profoundly sad and angry. I hope the responsible copyright lawyers have a hard time sleeping because of this and consider changing their line of work. If you are blocking people from reading books in the public domain, it is a good indication that you are one of the bad guys. Even worse, they only blocked peop…
> If you are blocking people from reading books in the public domain […]
‘Public domain’ doesn’t exist in Germany.
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#7What's the status of works by Heinrich Mann, who seems to have died in 1950? Shouldn't those have entered the public domain in Germany on Jan 1, 2021? If so, will PG be making those works available to German users?
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#8Absurd that there are lawsuits from 2015 about 110 year old books.
Re: Project Gutenberg is no longer fully blocked in Germany
#9This is great news! This is a wonderful project, and the fact that it wasn't accessible from Germany made me profoundly sad and angry. I hope the responsible copyright lawyers have a hard time sleeping because of this and consider changing their line of work. If you are blocking people from reading books in the public domain, it is a good indication that you are one of the bad guys. Even worse, they only blocked peop…
I agree it's good news that the project complied with the original court order from 2018, which was to block the works on German IP addresses that are still under German copyright law. Why would American copyright law apply in Germany? It's a bit disingenous of Project G that, instead of blocking access to just these books in Germany, they blocked access to the all the books. That was project G's, and not the German court's, decision. I'm glad they've changed their minds.
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#10Better submit an URL and your post as a comment :)
Thanks. I'll keep it in mind for next time :)