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Originally Posted by GatorDeb
The U.S. is Life + ??
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The US is "life + 70", like most western nations, but that only applies to books published after 1976. Prior to that, the US had its own, rather odd set of copyright laws. Basically, anything published prior to 1923 is automatically in the public domain in the US (which means that early works by long-lived authors such as Agatha Christie are in the public domain in the US, but not anywhere else in the world), but it also means that many books that are in the public domain elsewhere in the world are not public domain in the US.
It's all very complicated, I'm afraid.