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Originally Posted by Kali Yuga
This is not correct.
Copyright expires on works every year. Check out publicdomainday.org for more info.
Obviously if CTEA had not extended copyright protection by another 20 years, many more copyrights would have expired this year, but material is entering PD all the time.
Edit: This includes much of the work and letters of James Joyce... http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/jack...in-mostly.html |
Not in the US. There has only been one year (1922) that had gone into the public domain since 1978, with no more possible until 2019 at the earliest. Life + whatever is meaningless in the US, as everything is grandfathered from 1923, except for certain items that fell into the public domain due to non-renewal (before 1965).