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Old 01-05-2020, 01:44 AM   #10
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Please clear up a related confusion I have. Does the length of copyright depend upon the writer's country of birth (eg America) or the potential downloader's geographical location?

Please don't all hit me at once if I was wrong to do this. I was recently looking at the Canadian Gutenberg, which is life plus 50, but couldn't find any John Steinbeck, yet he died long enough ago to fall into this category. Is it because he lived in the states and his works are subject to US copyright?

I probably shouldn't have been doing this because I live in a life plus 70 country, but I didn't actually download anything.

Please clear up my confusion: is it the author's birthplace/where he lived which matters, or are other factors more important?
Copyright for digital uploads only depends on the country where the servers are located, for downloads only on where the downloader is located.

Why Steinbeck's works are missing? One possible reason: They have only been PD in Life+50 countries for a year. It takes some time to prepare ebooks. OTOH, at least the most popular works of a high profile author like Steinbeck should be up by now.
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