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Originally Posted by weatherwax
That's more or less what I thought. If a book is more than x years out of print, it should go into public Domain. Only question is: out of print where? It's might be easier to control on the German-language book market, but the English language market is bigger. And the next issue: how to verify if/since when a book is (globally) out of print.
And it does not mix well with other regulations like Life + X.
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Whether a work in in print or not shouldn't be the determining factor. I'll bet that there are books that went out of print in the 1970s and 1980s that are now being reissued as e-books and making money for authors and their heirs.
And what does out-of-print mean when it comes to an e-book?