Data-mining reveals that 80% of books published 1924-63 never had their copyrights renewed and are now in the public domain – Boing Boing

Data-mining reveals that 80% of books published 1924-63 never had their copyrights renewed and are now in the public domain  Boing Boing

This January, we celebrated the Grand Re-Opening of the Public Domain, as the onerous terms of the hateful Sonny Bono Copyright Act finally developed a leak …