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Originally Posted by avantman42
Copyright protection lasts for a limited time.
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This is technically true, of course. It it doesn't get extended again (Hello, Disney!) we're talking about life + 70 years. Unless we are talking about re-releases near the end of that term (where the author has been dead for, say, 60+ years) I don't think we'll have to worry about that just yet, certainly not for new books by a living author. The file will long since have become unreadable anyway before copyright expires.
Even so: PD books, too, come with DRM these days. Ridiculous, but there you have it.