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Originally Posted by SteveEisenberg
In the U.S., books from the era in question are generally subject to a 95 year copyright period. Because of that, in January, one or two Agatha Christie books usually pass into U.S. public domain. Do the changes discussed here reset that clock? And in Life + 70 countries, should the lead on the team which made the book more sensitive to modern ears AKA bowdlerized be a co-author resetting that clock?
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I'm not saying that some publisher won't try that, but I would hope the courts would throw out the case. Editorial changes are not generally considered to change the copyright status of a work.