<story><title>Millions of Books Are Secretly in the Public Domain</title><url>https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/kz4e3e/millions-of-books-are-secretly-in-the-public-domain-you-can-download-them-free</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>crazygringo</author><text>Previous discussion from 4 days ago:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=20591071&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=20591071&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;(Although this one is a proper news article, and that was a blog post.)</text></comment>
<story><title>Millions of Books Are Secretly in the Public Domain</title><url>https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/kz4e3e/millions-of-books-are-secretly-in-the-public-domain-you-can-download-them-free</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>blihp</author><text>It is sad that Copyright, working closer to how it was originally intended, gets spun as &amp;#x27;a quirk&amp;#x27;.  Copyright is &lt;i&gt;supposed&lt;/i&gt; to expire after a period of time rather than exist in perpetuity for the sole benefit of Copyright holders.</text></comment>