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Originally Posted by Little.Egret
So all works that are still copyright in the United States of America are copyright because published there and the fact that they have gone out of copyright under Life+x in the country of the author doesn't matter ?
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Yes.
And, baring a change to US law, on January 1, 2019, many books will go in the other direction. Most books published in 1923 will then be public domain here no matter when the author died, and regardless of copyright law in the author's nation.
We think we are special.
Then, Europe also thinks it is a little special, since it mostly goes by Life + 70, when the most common copyright term worldwide is Life + 50.