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Originally Posted by AnotherCat
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). |
Are you saying that the law in whatever country it is that you live in allows you to download anything you find on any web site without having to concern yourself about whether or not it's in the public domain in your country? I find that quite remarkable. Even if everything on archive.org were in the U.S. public domain, that certainly doesn't mean that a particular item is in the public domain in a different country.