Thread: Which classics fall out of copyright in 2012?
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Old 12-29-2011, 04:35 AM   #60
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Originally Posted by Sweetpea View Post
Wait, only 20 or 25 years? And annual renewal required? So, what's so different between books and plants that a book will allow a writer to hand on the rights for 50, 70 or however long it is in the US, to his heirs?
Laws that say so. That's the difference.
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