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Originally Posted by SteveEisenberg
...To give Harry his due, here's one difference: It's extremely unlikely I would know that clothing I was buying had an intellectual property issue. However, I do know that if I see a mainstream book, first published after 1963 (no copyright renewal needed), at archive.org site openlibrary.org, there is an intellectual property issue. And, if published between 1923 and 1963, there probably is an intellectual property issue...
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Well, maybe 0.01% would know (am guessing, but it is going to be very small - try walking down the street and asking people at random what the copyright time period is) of the population would understand the possible copyright implications regarding a book that they saw on, say, archive.org. And only a very small percentage would have the ability to recognise counterfeit clothing, for example, (customs at the border, and sometimes even the design holder find doing so difficult) so, in my view, CatLady's comparison stands.
The dates you mention have no relevance to me (or indeed most of the world
) whatsoever as I do not live in the USA, however taking your claim that for yourself if you saw a mainstream book first published after 1963 you would know "there is an intellectual property issue", I know, even just offhand without looking further, of a number of books first published after that date where the copyright holder has voluntarily relinquished their rights and are available on public web sites.
So, in fact you will not know unless you personally research the copyright status of each book. I suspect the law does not require that of you (it certainly does not in my own country).