Editing Distributed Proofreaders (section)

== Related projects ==

=== DP Europe ===
In January 2004, Distributed Proofreaders Europe started, hosted by [[Project Rastko]], Serbia.<ref>{{cite web | first=Marie | last=Lebert | date=November 4, 2010 | title=Distributed Proofreaders, producteur des livres du Projet Gutenberg, a 10 ans | language=fr | work=Actualitté | url=http://www.actualitte.com/dossiers/1197-ebooks-projet-gutenberg-distributed-proofreaders.htm | access-date=2011-06-30 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111005175932/http://www.actualitte.com/dossiers/1197-ebooks-projet-gutenberg-distributed-proofreaders.htm | archive-date=October 5, 2011 | url-status=live }}</ref> This site had the ability to process text in [[Unicode]] [[UTF-8]] encoding. Books proofread centered on European culture, with a considerable proportion of non-English texts including Hebrew, Arabic, Urdu, and many others. {{As of|2013|alt=As of October 2013}}, DP Europe had produced 787 e-texts, the last of these in November 2011.

The original DP is sometimes referred to as "DP International" by members of DP Europe. However, DP servers are located in the United States, and therefore works must be cleared by Project Gutenberg as being in the [[public domain]] according to U.S. [[copyright]] law before they can be proofread and eventually published at DP.

=== 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]].