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Originally Posted by pdurrant
This is not accurate. Unfortunately, the UK didn't follow the rule of the shorter term from 5 November 1956 to 31st December 1995. So only US works that fell into the public domain before or after those dates are also public domain in the UK. And essentially no new works have fallen into the public domain from 1996 onwards.
There's a good look at this complicated issue here
It, however, true that the Edgar Rice Burroughs works that are public domain in the US are also public domain in the UK. That's because when they fell into the public domain, the UK had a life+50 year copyright term, and that's what applies to the books in the UK. As it's been more than 50 years since Burroughs died, they're also public domain in the UK.
Since Burroughs died in 1950, in 2021, all Burroughs' works pass into the UK public domain, but some will remain copyright in the US. |
Thanks for the detailed explanation!