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Originally Posted by Elfwreck
Like George Orwell who died in 1950; 2021 will be the end of the Life+70 span?
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I understand that no works will be entering the PD in the US before 2019, so a few years off still. Are you confident you'll be able to read your current set of ebooks in 2021, DRM or no DRM?
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Adolf Hitler, 1945... 2015 is not too far away.
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I wasn't planning on getting a copy of "My Struggle" anytime soon, in either pbook or ebook form. That said, I don't think any of his books (are there others?) are currently in print. The Free State of Bavaria closely guards the copyright, and, yes, it will expire in a few years. Perhaps we'll see a critically-annotated version then, but of course the comments would be covered by copyright.
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The issue of ability to remove DRM from entering-public-domain works is not an abstract intellectual one.
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At this point it certainly isn't the most pressing one. But, again: even though you're free to use the text as you see fit doesn't mean your DRMed ebook has to allow for it. Large numbers of PD works are still sold, and many of these ebook versions have DRM. It's not more sinister than DRM
per se, in my opinion.