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Public domain explained

Why these books can be shared from open collections.

Works on this shelf come from open collections such as LibriVox, the Internet Archive, and Project Gutenberg—corpora that publish under United States public-domain rules. That is ourcorpus policy, not a per-book legal opinion.

Per-work public-domain badges follow evidence tiers (asserted → attested → verified). A bare catalog flag is not enough for a “Public domain” badge. Always follow the license notes on the source page when you leave audioshelf.