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Originally Posted by HarryT
As I say, Kenny, it's not that the law has changed more often in the US than elsewhere, it's the fact that, up until 1964 (I think that's the right date) the US had a system of copyright registration and renewals, which (AFAIK) other countries did not.
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Sounds about right. If I recall correctly, that was when the US became a signatory to the Berne convention.
And to make life more fun, the same story might be covered or not covered under different copyrights, like a variety of SF whose magazine serialization is now in the public domain because the rights were never renewed, but the novel version is not because it was...
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Dennis