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Originally Posted by HarryT
You can "draw upon" it in all sorts of ways, perfectly legally. You could write a book about someone who reads "Catcher in the Rye" and whose life is changed by it. That's not a "derivative work", and is perfectly OK.
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My point is about derivative works. Since 1976, work published before 1922 were public domain and free to be used in any derivative manner. Since then, only one year's worth of copyright has slid into the public domain in the US - in 33 years! (and no more will slide into PD for another 7 years, currently - or 40 years total). I have great difficulty being concerned for a derivative work of a work that should have been in the public domain to start with...