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Originally Posted by Patricia

I wonder. When Australia moved from a life+fifty years to a life+70 years rule, all the works that were in the public domain stayed PD. In other words, the legislation was not restrospective.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_copyright_law

Australia got saddled with American copyright laws and couldn't even sell anything they're good at making but sceptics weren't, eg beef and sugar, in return.

When the EU harmonised copyright to the German standard of death+70 it was retrospective. Works that were public domain became copyrighted again.

I can imagine what the legal cases would have been like for work done in that gap.