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Originally Posted by HarryT
The "life+x" system that every other country in the world (AFAIK) uses does, however, make it enormously easier to determine whether or not a book is in the public domain, because only one piece of information is required: the date of death of the author.
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Certainly not true in the U.S. that date of death is all you need, though I'll grant the U.S. is recently to life+. It's also not true for Canada. Anything published after the authors death is published+50 rather than life+50. I expect there are other countries that have exceptions as well.
Greg Weeks