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What's the book? There's lots of reasons why a work after 1923 might be in the public domain, but as of this year, everything before 1923 is in the public doma
by davvolun 8y ago
What's the book?
There's lots of reasons why a work after 1923 might be in the public domain, but as of this year, everything before 1923 is in the public domain. I would guess FOSS/FLOSS software is probably the most likely thing people might recognize as "public domain-like" (due to the issue of taking something public domain, then copyrighting your original work on it e.g. Disney's erstwhile business model).
Copyright could have been abandoned, creator hasn't pursued their claim, it could have been specifically released by the creator, "copyleft", ...
- userbinator 8y agoThis one, for example: https://archive.org/details/Engineering_Electronics_George_Happell_Wilfred_Hesselberth_1953 https://archive.org/details/Engineering_Electronics_George_H... It's probably the first two of your guesses, or the pre-1964 reason mentioned in a sibling comment. (There's stuff newer than that on the IA too, which are likely to be there because of the reasons originally mentioned.)
- davvolun 8y agoLooks like there's a lot of McGraw-Hill Book Company (now McGraw-Hill Education, not sure if that has something to do with it) books on archive.org, particularly from the "Public Library of India." I'm wondering if these came through some digitization effort that slipped through copyright, or maybe the original digitizer had obtained specific permission for these volumes? Definitely not obvious to me. https://archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A%22McGraw-Hill+Book+Company%22&page=2 https://archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A%22McGraw-Hil...