In most countries you only need to know when the author died (and sometimes the original date of publication). If the author is alive then it's safe to assume the work is in copyright.
But if you are asking about works published outside of the US after 1923 and before 1964 but were never renewed in compliance with US law, sorry but I cannot help you. The topic of foreign copyrights and whether they are valid in the US is so complicated that I would direct you to consult an attorney.
I'm not just talking through my hat. I am also a moderator over at MobileRead Forums, and I have had to check the copyright status of ebooks which were uploaded. My rule of thumb is that I can usually determine the copyright in either 5 minutes or 5 hours. I'm not kidding; sometimes determining the copyright of a work is such a complicated question that it can take hours to answer.
But the 2 services do much the same thing and use the same APIs. Why would publishers insist one be blocked but not the other? That doesn't make much sense, not unless Findings actually did something specific.
If this were a generic complaint by a major publisher then wouldn't it be more likely that all similar services would be blocked?
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http://www.the-digital-reader.com/2012/11/01/i-broke-google-reader-an-adventure-in-extreme-re ading/
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Adobe backed down
http://www.the-digital-reader.com/2014/02/04/adobe-didnt-mean-use-drm-break-ebook-readers/
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http://davidgaughran.wordpress.com/2014/01/16/fake-controversy-alert-hitlers-mein-kampf-w as-not-a-digital-bestseller
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Mark Twain, Jane Austen, James Joyce, and any number of authors have used the word literally to mean figuratively:
http://www.the-digital-reader.com/2013/08/14/why-the-grammar-nazis-are-literally-wron g/
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In most countries you only need to know when the author died (and sometimes the original date of publication). If the author is alive then it's safe to assume the work is in copyright.
But if you are asking about works published outside of the US after 1923 and before 1964 but were never renewed in compliance with US law, sorry but I cannot help you. The topic of foreign copyrights and whether they are valid in the US is so complicated that I would direct you to consult an attorney.
I'm not just talking through my hat. I am also a moderator over at MobileRead Forums, and I have had to check the copyright status of ebooks which were uploaded. My rule of thumb is that I can usually determine the copyright in either 5 minutes or 5 hours. I'm not kidding; sometimes determining the copyright of a work is such a complicated question that it can take hours to answer.
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http://ebookne.ws/UtPOyn
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B008XRNRJ8
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FYI:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_Eye#Litigation
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If this were a generic complaint by a major publisher then wouldn't it be more likely that all similar services would be blocked?
On the post: Book Publishers Latest War On Technology: How Dare You Share Your Kindle Highlights! [Updated]
http://www.the-digital-reader.com/2012/09/20/if-a-web-clipping-service-lost-access-to-you r-kindle-highlights-its-probably-not-the-publishers/
I would have posted it here but it's 900 words long.
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http://www.grantvillegazette.com/
That is a 43 volume anthology that has been in production for a decade now. The majority of it is fan fiction.
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He posted a comment over on my blog:
http://www.the-digital-reader.com/2012/08/06/lendink-and-the-reality-of-ebook-lending/#commen t-53308
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Everyone else who was crazy enough to want the job had already been committed to the psych ward.
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Nope. Readability launched an Android app last week; the service is 2 years old.
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