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Originally Posted by TimW
In the US, if the book was published after 1923, there's no way a free (legitimate) copy could be found on Archive.org. Since Fleming published no books before 1923, all of his books are definitely out-of-bounds. UK is Life+70? Since Fleming died 51 years ago, does that mean his works would enter the public domain in 19 years?
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Your contention that "In the US, if the book was published after 1923, there's no way a free (legitimate) copy could be found on Archive.org" is absolutely not true. See the summary information on copyright terms
here.
While it's true that everything published before 1923 is clearly in the public domain, it is not true that anything published after that date is protected.
Many of Ian Fleming's books were published at the time when copyright in the U.S. was subject to renewal requirements. If any copyrights were not renewed, the books are in the public domain.