Thread: Public Domain Day 2016 in the UK: A Special Day
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Old 11-08-2015, 02:44 PM   #25
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Originally Posted by HarryT View Post
That's right. Authors who died in 1926 were only out of the public domain for one year; those who died in 1944 were out for the maximum of 19 years. So Conan Doyle was out of the public domain for 5 years, if I've got my maths right.
Not that the authors that have died really care about this now.
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