Comment by robin_reala

I’m not based in the US and have no intention of travelling there, so I don’t count myself in much danger for US copyright law.

Regardless, my understanding of copyright is that people broadly get annoyed when you infringe by distribution. In this case the distribution didn’t happen until the copyright had expired. People preparing these projects for later launch do it purely on their own machines, and nothing arrives at Standard Ebooks until the day of release.