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Originally Posted by HarryT
For the sake of accuracy, I should point out that this is not necessarily true in the United States. It used to be the case in the US that copyright had to be registered, and renewed, and that if the renewal was not done, the work entered the public domain. That's how all the magazine SF short stories, many of which are by living authors, ended up on "Project Gutenberg". It is ONLY in the public domain in the US, though; nowhere else.
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I didn't know that. Or at least didn't realize that was the case. Though I wager it's more often seen in older works than something written in the last few decades. I mean I assume all works by Stephen King are still under copyright for example, though I haven't seen any paperwork confirming such.