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> can be released when the copyright expires But it ... won't be? The companies have no motivation to do so. The copyright on lots of these books are surely al
by collinmcnulty 2mo ago
> can be released when the copyright expires
But it ... won't be? The companies have no motivation to do so. The copyright on lots of these books are surely already expired, so if they wanted to they could be putting these up now. I'm sure internally this is viewed as a corpus of knowledge they have that their competitors do not, so they will not release them unless something forces them to.
- pfdietz 2mo agoYes, without any justification let's assume the worst. This is true good faith arguing.
- yallpendantools 2mo agoWe have a partial list from https://nltimes.nl/2026/06/25/rare-book-dealers-fear-tech-firms-destroying-obscure-editions-train-ai-models https://nltimes.nl/2026/06/25/rare-book-dealers-fear-tech-fi...: > The attachment contained 3,000 English-language titles organized by ISBN number, including books such as Distinct Element Modelling in Geomechanics by K.R. Saxena (1999); Barrett's Traditional Fairy Tales (2021), an academic study of Irish folklore; and Laser Shock Peening of Advanced Ceramics by Pratik Shukla (2018). Even if the authors died immediately after publication there is no way the copyright has expired.