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Originally Posted by AnotherCat
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). |
US is 70 years with some exceptions. So even then one book published in say 1897 could be public and another could still be copyrighted.