I would reply something following these lines. 1. The copyright of the work has experid accourding to Australian law. 2. PG of A is not subject to US copyright law, as it has no activities in the US. It is the responsibility of US visitors to our website to comply with US law, similar to a US visitor visiting Australia, and buying a printed copy of GWTW and bringing it to the US, or buying the same by postal order. 2. Nothing in Australian law requires PG of A to prevent access to public domain materials for visitors appearantly from outside Australia. Furthermore, no reliable means exists to determine the geographical location of a visitor to our website. Even if we would be able to implement such a mechanism, it would be easy to circumvent, using proxy servers. 3. The downloading for personal use and study, as is facilitated by the PG of Oz website, may, in many jurisdictions, consititute fair use of the work by the visitor, and hence, the downloading is not necessarily illegal in third countries, even if the work is still under copyright. 4. Project Gutenberg of Australia is legally an entirely independent organisation from PG of US, and PG of US cannot be held liable for any actions of PG of A. It has not been set up for the express purpose of evading US law, but as an independent sister organisation to allow Australian volunteers to distribute works in the public domain in Au. Nobody of PG US has any hand in establishing or running PG of A. Hence, PG US is lacks the means comply with your request, and PG of A is fully within its rights to behave as it does. Any litigation will be fully without merit. We advise you that any such litigation will be accompanied by a campaign on our side to increase public awareness of the overly long duration of copyright, and the highly disputable way such extentions have been bought in the US. I think Michael has dealth with issues like these a few times, so may have a letter ready in the correct legalese... Jeroen Hellingman