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Originally Posted by Tarana
New law that became effective Jan. 1. In the past, writers lost their rights due to lack of knowledge or weaseling in the contracts. No matter what a publishing contract says, the rights revert to the author or their heirs after 35 years. It is retroactive, so you will likely see a lot of stuff that was thrown to the backlist long ago suddenly becoming available. I don't have a link to the law - I just remember reading about it in October.
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That has absolutely nothing to do with length of copyright. The copyright will extend (in the UK, at least), until the beginning of the year following the 70th anniversary of her death.