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Originally Posted by Ralph Sir Edward
What due course? The "due course" should have already been in the public domain. If you say starting in 2018, what assurance that the very organizations that extended the copyright in 1978 and 1998 won't do it again in 2018?
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There certainly will be a push to extend the copyright period by 2018. Works won't enter the public domain by due course, but only if legislatures resist the pressure to extend copyright yet again. Extending it over and over again eventually doesn't qualify as 'limited times'.