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Originally Posted by pholy
Billi - No, the laws state that books enter the public domain on the January 1st following the 70th (50th in Canada) anniversary of the death of the author.
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Ah, so it's a standard cut off date then. Makes sense. I mean say one author dies Dec. 31st 1941 and another dies Jan 1st 1942. The second author's books would be PD then on Jan 2013 even though he had died just the day after the 1st author.