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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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Originally Posted by HarryT
In the UK, at least, the legislation covered that situation. It would really have to, don't you think?
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I'm not sure why that it would.
Why not just ignore stuff that's fallen out of copyright under previous legislation? It'd keep things simple.