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Originally Posted by Fbone
What I find funny is she published her first children's book in 1878. So that means it was in copyright for 135 years in the life+70 countries. I wonder if that is a modern day record.
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I have to offer a candidate:
German WW I hero and author Ernst Jünger published his first work, his war memories "In Stahlgewittern" (Storms of Steel) in 1920. He died in 1998 at the age of 103, therefore - assuming the law stays as it is - "In Stahlgewittern" will enter into the public domain in 2068, 148 years after its first publication.
As a side note: I recently read an interview with former German chancellor Helmut Schmidt in the UK's "Guardian". They reported that their first interview with Schmidt was 81 years (!) ago, when he was an exchange student in Manchester at the age of 14. That also has to be a record.