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bitemeok · 12-25-2011, 11:13 AM

It was my understanding that US Copyrights were given an extension that kept books that should have entered the public domain from doing so. Anything pre-1923 is public domain but other books wouldn't begin to enter the public domain until 95 years after publication.

See
http://copyright.cornell.edu/resources/publicdomain.cfm

Here's a link on the page you linked to explaining why we don't get any new public domain books in the US

http://www.law.duke.edu/cspd/publicdomainday

12-25-2011, 11:13 AM	#3
bitemeok Connoisseur Posts: 55 Karma: 42 Join Date: Aug 2010 Location: Silver Spring, MD Device: Sony PRS-300	It was my understanding that US Copyrights were given an extension that kept books that should have entered the public domain from doing so. Anything pre-1923 is public domain but other books wouldn't begin to enter the public domain until 95 years after publication. See http://copyright.cornell.edu/resources/publicdomain.cfm Here's a link on the page you linked to explaining why we don't get any new public domain books in the US http://www.law.duke.edu/cspd/publicdomainday Last edited by bitemeok; 12-25-2011 at 11:22 AM.