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Originally Posted by Elfwreck
Like George Orwell who died in 1950; 2021 will be the end of the Life+70 span?
Mahatma Gandhi, died in 1948; 2019 should see the release of his works?
Adolf Hitler, 1945... 2015 is not too far away.
The issue of ability to remove DRM from entering-public-domain works is not an abstract intellectual one. It's coming up soon in the US, and is a constant issue in other countries.
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Sadly it's not. We are
NOT a life + 70 country.
We are an "everything that wasn't ignored and not renewed before 1964" and are a "in copyright until Congress stop granting extensions" country...
That's why Zane Grey (died 1939) is PD just about everywhere
except the US...(for his works released after Dec 31 1922).
The US has allowed exactly one year to fall into the public domain, since 1978...By the time the current extension runs out, in 2018, more years would have been added to material excluded from the public domain, that then entire maximum length of copyright before 1978.