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Originally Posted by HarryT
...Unfortunately, although archive.org is a wonderful resource, it does have a fair amount of content which breaches copyright, which these books certainly appear to, given that Solzhenitsyn only died in 2008.
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I am not making any claim with respect to this book, I just do not know, but one must keep in mind that it is not unusual for important works to be to some extent put into the public domain by their rights holders. So the author's birthdate, etc. is not 100% reliable as an indicator of constraint.
In the case of Gulag Archipelago I would not be surprised (but again I do not know) that given the samizdat history of the manuscript in the USSR and free distribution the West in loose typed form before publication, if the text itself is pretty much at large and so OK to use (at least for personal use)
Waylander:
While we can live in hope I would be surprised if the 3 volume complete version of the book is ever available as an eBook, especially one with all the notes linked to the text (there must be way more than a thousand of those).
A possibility is that it does exist legitimately on some academic web site (I have never searched myself) for reading with the HTML available, or even an unformatted machine generated epub from that. I have a number of times grabbed such for important works I had an interest in and whipped it into an eBook. It is not uncommon that, if rights still exist over the work, it is explicitly stated that permission has been granted for non-commercial use of the material.