CCEL Copyright Policy

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Most of the books at the Christian Classics Ethereal library are in the public domain. A few are public domain in the United States but not in Europe; you should check local copyright status before copying outside of the United States. A few are still under a publisher's copyright and are used by permission; these are noted on the book information page.

You may use the text version of any public domain book at the CCEL in any way you please, including republishing it. However, the XML and other versions derived from the XML (all non-text versions) are copyrighted. They may be used for non-profit personal, educational, and church purposes involving fewer than 25 copies of a book without further permission. However, you should contact us for permission to republish CCEL works or to use them commercially.

It is a violation of copyright to post any of the CCEL non-text versions of books on any type of Web site without a license agreement with CCEL.

CCEL CDs

For all CCEL CDs released before January 1, 2007:
To obtain permission to reproduce these CDs or to utilize the contents of these CDs in conjunction with any commercial activities, please contact the CCEL. Under no circumstances may these CDs be mounted onto a Web site. You may only copy the contents of these CDs for personal non-commercial use.

For all CCEL CDs released after January 1, 2007:
These CDs are the results of many, many years of scanning, typing, formatting, proofing, doing markup and programming. The original versions of many of these works are in the public domain, but all the versions on these CDs are copyrighted by virtue of the editing and mark up applied to the text. Under no circumstances may these CDs be mounted onto a Web site. All rights reserved. Unauthorized duplication is a violation of applicable laws.