Wells died in 1946. In the UK (& EU) his works are currently in copyright for 70 years after his death, and will come out of copyright on 1st January, 2017
In Canada, they came out of copyright on 1st January 1997.
There is only one special case in copyright law in the UK, and that's Peter Pan.
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Originally Posted by AnemicOak
what makes it that Wells work is copyrighted in the UK and the rest of the EU (plus a few other places) until 31 December 2016? Is that standard UK copyright law or something special?
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