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Is the book in public domain now?

• malodyets 3y ago
  No. This edition is (c) 1970 and thus firmly under copyright for a long time to come (2065 I think). Rules here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_domain_in_the_United_States https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_domain_in_the_United_... Extended copyright harms the public domain, but the only realistic solution is for authors or publishers to believe in the common good more than their own profits. That does happen: Wikipedia for example is licensed under CC-BY-SA. But then you have Jimmy Wales pleading for donations regularly. Authors and publishers depend on copyright for well deserved income. In the US the balance of interests has swung so far away from the common good toward the author’s and publisher’s interests that for example interesting parody literature like The Wind Done Gone (a parody of Gone with the Wind having the same characters) are suppressed. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions is one of the best books I ever read.