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Re:Internet Archive forced to remove 500k books after publis... by xattt on Friday June 21, 2024 @10:31PM (#40755717)
It is amazing that modern medicine has extended authors’ afterlife by 56 years!
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Re:Internet Archive forced to remove 500k books after publis... by geysersam on Saturday June 22, 2024 @12:12AM (#40756213)
Originally it was 14 years plus another 14 years of the author survived that long. Copyright in the afterlife was not a thing
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