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Old 04-12-2013, 08:54 AM   #27
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Originally Posted by HarryT View Post
Why do you have to "guess"? You can work it out for yourself. Mr Salinger died in 2010. The US is now a country with a life+70 copyright law, so, just as in most other countries, his works will enter the US public domain on 1st Jan 2081.
No, It's not nearly that simple. The U.S. can't ever do anything related to copyright in a straght forward manner. Everything published before 1978 uses the old rules and becomes public domain in the U.S. 95 years after first publication.

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