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Surely they have the high quality scans, but there would probably be the same legal restrictions to just share the archive.

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I'm only one person, but I scan old books that had an impact on me growing up, and upload them to archive.org. Thankfully there are others that do the same. (And to be sure, FWIW, these are books that have not been printed for about 50 years—I suppose the software community would call them abandonware.)

If they're 50 years old they're young, and archive.org will likely block access. If they're not already on annas-archive (or the copy there is trash), your best bet is an anon upload to libgen.

Thanks.

There was a time of course when you could pull my books down from archive.org as PDFs. Perhaps that time will come again.

I'll look into libgen.

Archive.org Scanned Book Downloader Bookmarklet

https://gist.github.com/cemerson/043d3b455317d762bb1378aeac3...

Obviously. Copyright infringement is settled law.

Copyright infringement has a long and deep bank of caselaw but as Anthropic has already discovered, it is not entirely "settled."

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