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Originally Posted by JD Gumby
Wonder if there's a list for Canada? (author's life + 50 years, and 50 from publication OR 75 from creation, whichever is shorter, for anonymous works)
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A list of prominent authors who died in 1961 can be found by scrolling down here:
http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/years/1961.htm
I expect to see Ernest Hemingway at
http://gutenberg.ca/ within months if not weeks. And a bit after that, they are likely to be seen at
https://www.mobileread.com/. That is, unless something like the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) is passed.
If I were to download any of them, I would indeed be disrespecting my nation's copyright law.
Simon and Schuster, Hemingway's publisher, must still get a fair amount of revenue from those books. If SOPA becomes law, debates seen in these parts could become less than theoretical next year. (Although I find it hard to believe President Obama would sign it in an election year. Maybe they'll wait until 2013.)
P.S. For anyone new to these endless debates, legal changes currently being considered in the US Congress wouldn't change the copyright period. But they would potentially block US domain name servers from returning web sites used by Americans to download material copyrighted in the US, even if a foreign web site.