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by zozbot234 2288 days ago
Aaron Swartz was trying to share pre-1923 articles (this was basically the cutoff for public domain content in the U.S. at the time, ignoring more challenging issues such as whether the copyright was renewed and whether that actually means that a post-1920s item might be in the public domain). JSTOR has actually been making that content broadly available for quite some time.
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I think you've confused Aaron Swartz with Greg Maxwell.

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110912/10132515906/jstor...