You can now get 100,000s of books for FREE — thanks, confusing copyright law


Book lovers, rejoice — hundreds of thousands of works are now online for free! Free! FREE! How? The exciting, rock and roll world of the public domain and US copyright law. Oh dear Oh yes. Basically, before the 1976 US Copyright Act, American works only had a copyright length of 28 years, according to Motherboard. Once this period was up, the books would have to be registered again. And you know what you can bet on in these sort of situations? No… Human laziness. Loads of people didn’t bother to re-register their copyright, meaning the work fell into the public domain. Which, for…

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