Conditions of Using Ripping Yarns.com e-books

All e-books in RippingYarns.com are subject to copyright, including any 'free samples.' It is a condition of using the website that all customers read and accept the copyright conditions.

Customers can download (or be e-mailed) a copy of any e-books that they purchase. You are allowed to print off a paper copy of the e-book for your own personal use only.

You are also allowed to copy a Ripping Yarns.com e-book to a Palmtop or Pocket PC for personal use only.

Any copying of a RippingYarns.com onto a third party computer, website, bulletin board or other electronic transmission is a breach of copyright and all offenders will be prosecuted.

E-books are password protected and are encrypted to prevent 'copying and pasting' into other documents.

Copyright Notes

The original text in Ripping Yarns.com's e-books may or may not still be under copyright - or it may be under 'Revived Copyright' (see below); depending on when the original author died.

However, please note that in all cases, the artwork, illustrations, editor's notes and appendices added by Ripping Yarns.com will be under current copyright. Hence even though the original text may, for example, have been written as long ago as 1625; the Ripping yarns.com e-books and paperbacks are still subject to current copyright legislation.

Copyright Duration and Revived Copyright
Copyright in the UK now extends to 70 years after the author's death: it used to be 50 years. In 1996, as part of EU harmonisation, the law was changed. Books originally written by authors who died between 1933 and 1945 have therefore come back into copyright - this is called 'Revived Copyright', and the law is slightly different. More information can be found out at the following links:
Copyright Duration
Revived Copyright

In some Revived Copyright cases, we have been unable to trace the copyright owner. We do not want to profiteer from this anomaly, and so in these cases any author's royalties will be donated to charity. This is outlined in the editor's introduction to the book.