Editing Distributed Proofreaders (section)

=== DP Canada ===
In December 2007, [[Distributed Proofreaders Canada]] launched to support the production of e-books for [[Project Gutenberg Canada]] and take advantage of shorter [[Copyright law of Canada|Canadian copyright]] terms. Although it was established by members of the original Distributed Proofreaders site, it is a separate entity. All its projects are posted to [[Faded Page]], their book archive website. In addition, it supplies books to Project Gutenberg Canada (which launched on [[Canada Day]] 2007) and (where copyright laws are compatible) to the original Project Gutenberg.

In addition to preserving [[Canadiana]], DP Canada is notable because it is the first major effort to take advantage of Canada's copyright laws which may allow more works to be preserved. Unlike copyright law in some other countries, Canada has a "life plus 50" copyright term. This means that works by authors who died more than fifty years ago may be preserved in Canada, whereas in other parts of the world those works may not be distributed because they are still under copyright.

Notable authors whose works may be preserved in Canada but not in other parts of the world include [[Clark Ashton Smith]], [[Dashiell Hammett]], [[Ernest Hemingway]], [[Carl Jung]], [[A. A. Milne]], [[Dorothy Sayers]], [[Nevil Shute]], [[Walter de la Mare]], [[Sheila Kaye-Smith]] and [[Amy Carmichael]].