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Originally Posted by Elsi
In Australia (now a life+70 country), they'll be in copyright until 31 December 2030.
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Australia went death + 70 after the US forced it as a condition of the Free Trade Agreement. However, it was not retrospective. Therefore, if the author died up to 31st December 1956 there work is public domain, ie death + 50. After that its death + 70.