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I'm quickly reading at https://boingboing.net/2019/08/01/8...Ldf_i5muga3g_m0NVkMQ5u6NiE-f_FapGKftJO76_hxbw that about 80% of books published in the US between 1924 and 1963 are in the Public Domain now.
Textbooks are known to be very expensive, even when they are "old" and their authors are dead since decades. I am wondering if most of them have reached the Public Domain? For example, what about the Landau and Lifschitz series? Their first edition was published during that period. Wikipedia gives links to the archive website containing copies of these textbooks for free. I had been told here in the past that it broke copyrights, but now that I read the title of the article I linked above, I am in doubts. It looks like they have reached the public domain?
Textbooks are known to be very expensive, even when they are "old" and their authors are dead since decades. I am wondering if most of them have reached the Public Domain? For example, what about the Landau and Lifschitz series? Their first edition was published during that period. Wikipedia gives links to the archive website containing copies of these textbooks for free. I had been told here in the past that it broke copyrights, but now that I read the title of the article I linked above, I am in doubts. It looks like they have reached the public domain?