"The Sonny Bono Memorial Collection"

[thewayne]

There's an interesting little exception in American copyright law that is being exploited: if a book published between 1923 and 1941 is out of print, a physical copy can be scanned and released into the commons. And it's being actively exploited in libraries across the country!

Hence, the Sonny Bono Memorial Collection! (link)

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[thespian15]

How does it become his collection. Obviously he didn't write that many books. :o
Hugs, Jon

[thewayne]

It’s called IRONY, son! The copyright extension was named after him when he was killed and it was passed solely to protect The Mouse, so now they’re repurposing his name for this collection of out of print books that are wiggling in to the public domain through a hole in the law.

[thespian15]

LOL...............