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Project Gutenberg Blocks German Users from Downloading eBooks

March 3, 2018 By Michael Kozlowski 2 Comments

Project Gutenberg has disabled ebook downloads from people in Germany. This is due to an ongoing court case that said 18 German titles were in violation of copyright, even though the copyright expired in the United States.  In a statement Gutenberg said ” The German Courts overstepped its jurisdiction, and allowed the world’s largest publishing group to bully Project Gutenberg for these 18 books, there is every reason to think that this will keep happening. There are thousands of eBooks in the Project Gutenberg collection that could be subject to similar overreaching and illegitimate actions.”

The lawsuit against Gutenberg is from S. Fischer Verlag, GmbH. S. Fischer Verlag, GmbH is part of Holtzbrinck Publishing Group and Macmillan Publishers Ltd is wholly owned by Holtzbrinck Publishing Group. By blocking all German users from the site, they will get a lot of media attention, and S. Fischer Verlag will get a lot of bad press. Whether or not they will move from their position is questionable, but it will hurt them.

Michael Kozlowski

Michael Kozlowski is the Editor in Chief of Good e-Reader. He has been writing about audiobooks and e-readers for the past ten years. His articles have been picked up by major and local news sources and websites such as the CNET, Engadget, Huffington Post and Verge.

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  • Mex5150

    What a shame for German readers, I just hope they know about VPN’s

  • Carlos Botero

    This is infuriating. The badly called “law on intellectual property” is one of the worst aspects where sold-out shyster lawyers reveal their nefarious influence. Wrong at practically all levels: Contradictory overlaps between local and universal decrees; anachronistic, unfair, illogical and over-extended deadlines that only benefit corporations against the interests of the general public; intricate and intimidating edicts that are happily changed retroactively, that put you in a position where you end up “breaking the law” even if you do your best effort to comply. What a bad joke!

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