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Originally Posted by Cookie Monster
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.
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In the UK, at least, the legislation covered that situation. It would really have to, don't you think?
If I recall correctly, everyone who was using a work which had been in the public domain, but was no longer, was permitted to freely carry on using the work, but no new usage was permitted.