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airlik · 11-14-2006, 12:09 PM

At first I thought I'd create a thread where folks could list books that would be entering the public domain in the near future when I noticed that the copyright date for "Brave New World" was 1932... my assumption was that copyright duration was about 75 years, and that Brave New World would be entering the public domain next year. However, reading what I could about US copyright law on Wikipedia just tells me that for works created before the misinformed Sonny Bono reforms of 1978 but after 1923, the situation is complicated. I found this informative chart with little searching:

http://www.copyright.cornell.edu/tra...lic_Domain.htm

Anyone know how to find renewal dates for copyrighted works?

11-14-2006, 12:09 PM	#1
airlik Connoisseur Posts: 76 Karma: 15 Join Date: Oct 2006 Device: Sony Reader	Upcoming copyright expirations At first I thought I'd create a thread where folks could list books that would be entering the public domain in the near future when I noticed that the copyright date for "Brave New World" was 1932... my assumption was that copyright duration was about 75 years, and that Brave New World would be entering the public domain next year. However, reading what I could about US copyright law on Wikipedia just tells me that for works created before the misinformed Sonny Bono reforms of 1978 but after 1923, the situation is complicated. I found this informative chart with little searching: http://www.copyright.cornell.edu/tra...lic_Domain.htm Anyone know how to find renewal dates for copyrighted works?