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Originally Posted by dhbailey
For Canada and Australia, any author who has been dead for 50 years (died in 1958 or earlier) is in the public domain.
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Australia recently revised their copyright laws in order to get a trade agreement with the USA.
"Under Australian copyright law, literary, dramatic, and musical work published, performed, communicated, or recorded and offered for sale in an author's lifetime are,
if the author died in or before 1954, protected for the life of the author plus fifty years from the end of the year of the author's death. Therefore, for a work to be in the "public domain" in Australia, it is only necessary that the author died in or before 1954 and that the work was published (not necessarily in Australia) during her/his lifetime. As an example, the works of George Orwell, who died in 1950, are in the "public domain" in Australia.
Where an author died after 1954 the copyright period is the life of the author plus seventy years from the end of the year of the author's death." --
http://gutenberg.net.au/submissions.html