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Originally Posted by HarryT
You're talking about the uniquely complicated US rules. You live in Canada, which has a simple "life+50" rule. Currently in Canada, any book whose author died before the end of 1959 is in the public domain. On 1st Jan 2011 those books whose authors died during 1960 will be added to that.
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Thanks. I was under the impression that the rules were different depending on the country of origin of the book, but looking at gutenberg.ca, I do see books available there that are still under copyright in the US. Okay, things are currently not as bad here as south of the border. But Canada is subject to intense trade pressure from our neighbours to the South, and I wouldn't be surprised if we "harmonize" our copyright laws with the those of the Americans at some point.