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Originally Posted by Ralph Sir Edward
Which loops me back to where I started. If a Doc Savage novel was written by author X, what controls the public domain date in a life + 50 country. (I looked at the Canadian law web site, which implied either 50 years after the publication (Pseudonymous works) or author's life + 50 years. Laurence Donovan died in 1950, Harold A. Davis died in 1955, and Lester Dent died in 1959. The others died much later or are currently undetermined.) Are there overriding treaty agreements with the US?
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In Canada, the pd date is the year the author died +51. For example, Laura Ingalls Wilder died in 1957. On 1 January 2008 her works entered the public domain in Canada.
Since Canada is a strict death+50, so the first two are out of copyright in Canada right now. We can host their works here at MobileRead if someone will upload it. The third author's work will become pd on 1 January, 2010.
Australia is the same except for the thirds author. The Dent works have a copyright of death+70 because of a 2006 treaty signed with the USA.
P.S. Just because the work is still in copyright in the US doesn't mean it is in other countries.