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That's right - it's the start of the year following the 50th/70th anniversary of the author's death, so someone who died in 1960 will enter the public domain on 1st Jan 2011 in "life + 50" countries, and on 1st Jan 2031 in "life + 70".
Raymond Chandler invented Philip Marlowe, who is the definitive "world-weary, hard-boiled detective". His books are true classics of the detective genre.
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