So if you are in a death+70 country and happen to find it in a website from a death+50 country, you are not allowed to read it? The problem, I think, is redistribution. And the website already has the permission to redistribute it so it should be fair game to read it from there.
What happens if I travel to a death+50 country and buy a cheaper version there and return? Isn't it the same?
This makes me sad. We’re discussing something as simple as “do I still need to worry about copyright on books whose author has been dead for half a century”.
The mere fact that you had to quality this with statement with “I think”, and that I genuinely don’t know if I agree with your interpretation might actually be the absolute worst part of all of this.
What happens if I travel to a death+50 country and buy a cheaper version there and return? Isn't it the same?