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DrNefario · 01-04-2021, 07:29 AM

Everyone seems to be banging on about The Great Gatsby, which has gone PD in the US, but seems to have been out of copyright in most of the rest of the world for 10 years already.

Anyway, I thought I'd note some of the more significant authors who died in 1950 and have therefore just come into the public domain. These are the ones I have noticed:

George Orwell - 1984, Animal Farm, etc

George Bernard Shaw - Pygmalion, Man and Superman, etc

Edgar Rice Burroughs - Tarzan, Barsoom, etc

Rafael Sabatini - Scaramouche, Captain Blood, etc

Olaf Stapledon - Last and First Men, Star Maker, etc

(Some of their works would already have been PD in the US.)

01-04-2021, 07:29 AM	#1
DrNefario Wizard Posts: 2,206 Karma: 12029046 Join Date: Jan 2012 Location: UK Device: Kindle, Kobo Touch, Nook SimpleTouch	Life +70 Public Domain titles added Jan 1st 2021 Everyone seems to be banging on about The Great Gatsby, which has gone PD in the US, but seems to have been out of copyright in most of the rest of the world for 10 years already. Anyway, I thought I'd note some of the more significant authors who died in 1950 and have therefore just come into the public domain. These are the ones I have noticed: George Orwell - 1984, Animal Farm, etc George Bernard Shaw - Pygmalion, Man and Superman, etc Edgar Rice Burroughs - Tarzan, Barsoom, etc Rafael Sabatini - Scaramouche, Captain Blood, etc Olaf Stapledon - Last and First Men, Star Maker, etc (Some of their works would already have been PD in the US.)