On Mon, 25 Aug 2025 at 18:43, Leppert, Greg gleppert@law.harvard.edu wrote:

I fear I should have mentioned that our goal isn’t to replicate or strictly adhere to existing movements.

"Public domain" isn't a movement.

If the nearly 1M books in your collection are public domain, that status is (subject only to a massive and highly improbable change in various laws) immutable.

Given that I’m new to the list, I wouldn’t be surprised to learn that that means my original message was off topic or, at the least confusing.

Why would you think anyone is confused? Your message seemed very clear.