The authors of those 18 eBooks in question as well as an explaination of the contrasting copyright laws:
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Q: Who are the authors? Why are they copyrighted in Germany, but not the the US?
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Heinrich Mann, who died in 1950.
Thomas Mann, who died in 1955.
Alfred Döblin, who died in 1957.
In Germany, they are copyrighted based on "life +70 years" of copyright protection (so, copyright will expire after 2020, 2025 and 2027, respectively). In the US, copyright protection for works published prior to 1978 is based on the number of years since publication.
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