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Originally Posted by Kali Yuga
In terms of tracking: The sites already have databases that include the author's name and the publication date. I presume they already have the date of the author's death in their database, since that information often shows up on the website. So, you add one table with "country" and "copyright length," set up the queries, feed that into an IP geolocator on the web server, and Bob's Yer Uncle.
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Unfortunately it is most assuredly not that simple.
Two specific examples:
In the UK, the book "Peter Pan" has a perpetual copyright, with all proceeds from it going to St Ormand's Street Childrens' Hospital.
In France, anyone who served in the first or second world wars enjoys a longer copyright term than those who did not.
It's this kind of thing - and every country probably has such examples - that makes it a very, very complex situation.