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Originally Posted by HarryT
What do you mean by the expression "with rule of the shorter term", Greg? Please do correct me if I'm wrong, but the "expiring" copyright that was in force in the United Stated prior to the late 1960s ONLY applies to the US, does it not? I'm pretty certain that none of this stuff is in the public domain in the UK, for example.
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For any Berne signatory that implements the Berne "Rule of the shorter term" when a copyright expires in the home country it is expired in the other country as well. So if the US copyright is expired on a book then it is expired in any country that implements the "Rule of shorter term." Canada is the only country I've looked at. Canada implements the rule of shorter term for all countries except the US.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_of_the_shorter_term
Greg Weeks
I should add, that US copyright expired means a US author, not just any copyright.