That's one of the frustrating things about living in the U.S. It has the longest copyright length for existing works of anywhere in the world (life + 95 years). There are works recently gone into the public domain in (life + 50) countries that I would be willing to do the work on, but I'm legally bound to do nothing on them for the rest of my life...
Coming soon to public domain in life + 50 countries.
James Branch Cabell (Jan 1, 2009)
Henry Kuttner (Jan 1, 2009)
Raymond Chandler (Jan 1, 2010)
Lester Dent (80% of the Doc Savages written)
(Jan 1, 2010)
Ernest Hemmingway (Jan 1, 2012)
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