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Originally Posted by GlenBarrington
Speaking as a retired DBA, If their database is reasonably structured, It would be a small problem to add PD expiration dates in an array of 10 year increments from 20 to 100 to the records of catalogued books. Then when someone tries to download a book, their location is identified and the proper ability to DL is either granted or denied based on a simple country look up table.
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No it''s not that easy. You have to look at each book individually and every country individually to determine if it's in copyright or not. There is NO consistent set of rules. That would be insanely expensive to do for anyone, let alone a non-profit with a small budget. It takes hours to do one book for the US that falls in the 1923-1963 window. Every country has it's own set of gotchas.