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Originally Posted by clintbradford
>> ... Different countries have different copyright laws and different lengths of protection ...
Research the Berne Convention - which requires its signatories to recognize the copyright of works of authors from other signatory countries in the same way as it recognizes the copyright of its own nationals.
I believe all the countries mentioned in this thread are signatories.
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The Berne convention requires countries to have a term of copyright that lasts until at least 50 years after the authors death.
Canada has a term of lifetime+50. UK has a term of lifetime+70. USA has a term of lifetime+70 now, but a mixture of terms for older works.
It's perfectly possibly for one work to be in copyright in UK and USA, but out of copyright in Canada, or to be out of copyright in USA and Canada, but still in copyright in the UK.
For example,
Ernest Bramah died in 1957.
All his works are still in copyright in the UK.
All his works are out of copyright in Canada.
His works published before 1923 are out of copyright in USA, but those published after 1922 are still in copyright in USA.
If a book published between 1923 and 1963 inclusive didn't have its copyright renewed in USA, it will now be out of copyright there, although it might well still be in copyright in Canada and the UK.