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+# Public domain books
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+This is a repository of public domain books in web format.
+
+Books published in this repository are public domain under Vietnamese copyright
+law, as it is more than 50 years since authors' deaths, or the works have been
+published posthumously first more than 50 years ago.  Details are included in
+each books to help one determine its copyright status.