A book from 1968 is still considered in copyright. The out-of-copyright cut-off for the US is 1923. Determining ACTUAL copyright (not just looking at the date) is very complex. Here's the chart on how to determine it:
http://copyright.cornell.edu/resources/publicdomain.cfm Anything published after 1964 with a copyright notice is in copyright for 95 years. Come back in 2058 :-) I don't know about the later editions being available as ebooks. They may have been scanned, but unless the copyright holder has released them, they shouldn't be openly available. kc On 5/5/14, 5:10 AM, Andre Robatino wrote: > As an example, I am interested in an ebook for > https://openlibrary.org/books/OL5613510M/The_economic_problem > (specifically the 1st edition from 1968, not the later ones). Strangely, > there are ebooks for a few later editions, but not the first. If it was > due to copyright issues, I'd expect the opposite. If I click on the > "Internet Archive" link > > https://archive.org/details/economicproblem00heil > > and then take the URL of the animated GIF > > https://ia600506.us.archive.org/16/items/economicproblem00heil/economicproblem00heil.gif?cnt=0 > > and go up a level > > https://ia600506.us.archive.org/16/items/economicproblem00heil/ > > there is a listing of what looks like a complete scan of the whole book. > (I can't be sure since most of the files can't be downloaded. Is it a > security issue that I'm even allowed to list the files?) > > So my question is, if the whole book has in fact been scanned, why is it > only available as a protected DAISY, and not an ebook, although a few > later editions are also available as ebooks? More generally, is there a > huge amount of scanned content that's unavailable due to some kind of > programming issue, and not copyright? > _______________________________________________ > Ol-discuss mailing list - Ol-discuss@archive.org > http://mail.archive.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ol-discuss > Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/ol-discuss@archive.org/ > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send email to > ol-discuss-unsubscr...@archive.org > -- Karen Coyle kco...@kcoyle.net http://kcoyle.net m: 1-510-435-8234 skype: kcoylenet _______________________________________________ Ol-discuss mailing list - Ol-discuss@archive.org http://mail.archive.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ol-discuss Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/ol-discuss@archive.org/ To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send email to ol-discuss-unsubscr...@archive.org
