How did it get a copy of 1984? [LWN.net]

How did it get a copy of 1984?

Posted Feb 13, 2026 2:17 UTC (Fri) by KJ7RRV (subscriber, #153595)
In reply to: How did it get a copy of 1984? by daroc
Parent article: Poisoning scraperbots with iocaine

Thank you! I misunderstood the article and thought that that corpus was also provided by Iocaine, and also wasn't aware that 1984 is in the public domain in some countries. Thank you for the clarification!

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How did it get a copy of 1984?

Posted Mar 13, 2026 12:44 UTC (Fri) by sammythesnake (guest, #17693) [Link]

> [I] wasn't aware that 1984 is in the public domain in some countries.

ITYM "almost all countries"

According to my quick scan of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_copyright_duration_... I make it everywhere except:

Columbia, Equatorial Guinea, Spain (until 2030)
United States (until 2045)

Jamaica stands out with what looks like the longest period at 100 years from author's death, bit that's only for works created after 2003, so not applicable. The vast majority of the world goes with life+50 years in most cases, though numbers in the range 60-75 are fairly common, too.