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-The non commercial project Wikilivres, started in 2006, has a similar task like the Wikisource: it hosts text and also images which are in the public domain or a free licence.
-The server of Wikilivres are hosted in  Canada and therefore the project follows the Canadian copyright law. This is the difference to the Wikisource projects: in simple words,  according to the Canadian copyright law the works (texts, images etc.) are in the public domain fifty years after the death of the author. The multilingual Wikisource project has to  account seventy years after the death of the author. Thus the purpose to establish Wikilivres (which  does not belong to the Wikimedia Foundation) was to enlarge the possibilities of Wikisource on a legal way. Works (or translations) that can be published on Wikisource are not accepted on Wikilivres.
-Although quite young the site has reached nearly 9000 content pages in 2009. Similar to the multilanguage project Oldwikisource Wikilivres host several languages. In 2009 the main languages are  Chinese, Czech, English, French, German, Russian and Spanish, and there are some more so called minor languages on the site.
-The site hosts works or translations of authors like André Breton, Albert Einstein, Mohandas K. Gandhi, George Orwell, Eugene O'Neill, George Bernard Shaw, Ludwig Wittgenstein or Virginia Woolf.

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