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Originally Posted by Ricky D'Angelo
IMHO, more books should be in the public domain. According to the following source works up to 1923 are currently in public domain in the US.
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I don't know where you are in Latin America, but that area of the world has some of the world's longest copyright lengths. Jamaica is Life + 95 years, and Mexico is moving towards Life + 100 years. Meanwhile, there are lots of titles, in the public domain, in the United States, that are under copyright protection everywhere else.
The unusual thing about United States copyright is it being currently based on year of publication rather than year of author's death. So it's hard to make a general statement about U.S. copyright being, by international standards, short or long.