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Originally Posted by eschwartz
If it wasn't written before 1923, is it public domain? Most likely not. 
Was it written within the last 3 years? Yes? Oh, then definitely not. |
Not automatically. But every author has the right to publish his books as "public domain" if he/she wishes so, so theoretically there may be (and are) books in the public domain that have only been published last year.