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Originally Posted by gweeks
Anything that was published in 1978 or later falls into the life+70 rules in the U.S. It's just going to take us a long time until the old stuff expires.
Greg
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Gotcha. That information is good to know. So, Congress has taken some major action.
It's nice to know that they have based the law on the end of the life of the creator, instead of the copyright date.
What about the stuff published
before 1978, though? Math is not my strong suit, but it seems that, unless there is some legislation to address it, works copyrighted 1923 to 1977 will stay out of the public domain perpetually.
UPDATE: Okay, I've answered my own question. I found a very useful (but not particularly attractive) flowchart at
http://sunsteinlaw.com/practices/cop...ght-flowchart/. It looks like the 1923-1977 stuff has been addressed. What I remembered as being all kinds of exceptions are not really that. They serve to delineate the phases that stuff copyrighted 1923-1977 goes into the public domain. It is complicated; I guess that's why a flowchart really helps. ha