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Originally Posted by Jellby
No one let them fall anywhere. When we changed the library to life+70 these books were not allowed because they were not public domain (in life+70 countries), so they had to be moved away. We had some tools to make these moves easier, now we don't have similar tools to move them back.
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If life plus 70 is the mark then some books go back in the public domain, but if the mark is the public domain for all countries then in the USA there are no new books to add until 2019.
It’s Public Domain Day and once again Americans get almost nothing
"The US changed its copyright term to 70 years in 1978, but it also retroactively extended copyrights twice—first as part of the 1978 law and then again in 1998. As a result of these extensions, no published works will actually enter the public domain until 2019. (Unpublished works do enter the public domain, but this is a much smaller and decidedly less illustrious group.)"