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I'm curious, if Copyright stays valid for 70 years or so, how are these books only now entering the public sphere if the last of them was written nearly 100 yea
by helloworld11 4y ago
I'm curious, if Copyright stays valid for 70 years or so, how are these books only now entering the public sphere if the last of them was written nearly 100 years ago in 1927?
- lambertsimnel 4y agoIt might be to do with the remaining durations of some kinds of UK (and US) copyrights counting down from the death of the author. (I don't know whether those rules were in place during Conan Doyle's life, but his copyrights might have been retroactively extended.) See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries%27_copyright_lengths https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries%27_copyrig...