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pgd1 · 08-03-2009, 02:56 PM

Hi Elsi,
Thanks for the reply. I'm very new to this "Public Domain" topic and am not too clear on how it works.

So, if a work is out of copyright, is it public domain? Does it matter when the copyright ended?

When I was reading the topic on this board it sounded like it was 70 or 50 years after the death of an author when works become public domain. Does this apply to ALL of that authors works regardless of copyright, while individual books may become public domain earlier if they were published over 70 years or so (as in Sax Rohmer)?

08-03-2009, 02:56 PM	#5
pgd1 Junior Member Posts: 3 Karma: 10 Join Date: Aug 2009 Device: none	Public Domain Authors Hi Elsi, Thanks for the reply. I'm very new to this "Public Domain" topic and am not too clear on how it works. So, if a work is out of copyright, is it public domain? Does it matter when the copyright ended? When I was reading the topic on this board it sounded like it was 70 or 50 years after the death of an author when works become public domain. Does this apply to ALL of that authors works regardless of copyright, while individual books may become public domain earlier if they were published over 70 years or so (as in Sax Rohmer)?