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That would depend on the country right? USA doesn't have a life+, so it's a hard date of 1928.
by pard68 3y ago
That would depend on the country right? USA doesn't have a life+, so it's a hard date of 1928.
- AtlasBarfed 3y agoUntil they bribe the supremes to revise the ruling.
- prosody 3y agoTo be precise, the US does have life+70 for works published after 1978. The rest of the world went that route and the US begrudgingly followed, but the works published before the switchover date are grandfathered into the old system. The US copyright regime is a real rats' nest of complexity, see https://guides.library.cornell.edu/copyright/publicdomain https://guides.library.cornell.edu/copyright/publicdomain
- account42 3y ago> The US copyright regime is a real rats' nest of complexity The likely alternative would be (even more) retroactive copyright extensions which would be much worse.