But when the UK did it in 1996 it did make the law retrospective, and revived many copyrights, e.g. Kipling's works, which had been out of copyright in the UK since 1st January 1987, went back into copyright on 1st January 1996, and didn't come back out of copyright in the UK until 1st January 2007.
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Originally Posted by HarryT
When, for example, Australia increased its copyright term from 50 to 70 years, all works which had entered the public domain due to "life + 50" status remained in the public domain. To attempt to do otherwise seems like an exercise in futility.
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