It's no longer under copyright, in Germany or Britain. US copyright is ridiculous.
If you are talking about a way to publish books on Nostr in a way that is difficult, if not impossible, to censor, you should look into Project Alexandria that nostr:npub1m4ny6hjqzepn4rxknuq94c2gpqzr29ufkkw7ttcxyak7v43n6vvsajc2jl and others are working on.
Check out her article about it here: https://habla.news/u/laeserin@getalby.com/1719204947236
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Downloaded it from Australia. Feeling cute. Might reformat it and use it as test data for my parser. 😇