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Originally Posted by doubleshuffle
I can't recall the term after which posthumously published work by a long-dead author enters the public domain.
Specifically: The poems from Percy Bysshe Shelley's "Esdaile notebook" were first published in 1964. Are they in the public domain now?
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Others here know more about copyright than I do, but my reading says that in Germany, posthumous works by authors dead more than 70 years enter the public domain 25 years after publication. So, yes, for MR purposes (I'm open to correction).