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Originally Posted by GatorDeb
How about books published after 1923 but before 1976?  |
They are virtually all still in copyright. There are a few exceptions (those which failed to have their copyright "renewed", as used to be necessary in the US prior to around the mid 1960s).
In most of the world, anything written by an author who died in or before 1937 is now out of copyright. That, regretably, is not the case in the US. In most of the world, the public domain "expands" year on year, with each year bringing new authors into the public domain, but no new material will enter the public domain in the US until 2019 at the earlier, largely because of the lobbying efforts of Disney to extend copyright protection which would otherwise have long since expired.