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Originally Posted by Poppa1956
I didn't even look. Shame on me.
I am curious as to why it's allowed to continue in places here, if it is not in the PD. I'm not telling the copyright police, though.
Ah well, I found Acres of Diamonds on Gütenberg, and that spells "Safe" to me. (Bad spelling is one of my excuses for not doing original stories, it sounds so much better than, "I'm too lazy.")
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Here's the classic example.
The Reminiscences Of A Stock Operator was published in March 1923. The author died in 1943. It is PD in Canada, and has been since 1994. It will go public domain in Britain in 2014. It is still under copyright in the US until 2018. Had it been published
4 months earlier it would have been in public domain in the US since 1979.
Every time the copyright is about to expire on the early Disney films, there is a deluge of copyright lobbying to extend copyright again, in the name of the artistic creator, who is already long dead....