Thread: Copyfraud - public domain's fate?
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Old 12-07-2010, 02:36 AM   #117
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Originally Posted by HarryT View Post
I am a little puzzled by these "copyright lasts forever" posts. In virtually every country in the world, new material enters the public domain every year (eg, in "life+70" countries, all those books whose authors died during 1940 will enter the public domain on 1st Jan 2011).

Copyright terms are long, but certainly not "eternal".
I believe that these life+70 rules only apply to books published after 1978, at least in the US. The rules are too convoluted for me, but here are a couple of links that might help you: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyrig..._Extension_Act, http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenb...pyright_How-To
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