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Re:Planet eBook – Classic literature publications formatted ... by jcranmer on Sunday October 25, 2020 @04:42PM (#24889718)
> In the US, the public domain system is different: works enter the public domain 95 years after the initial date of publication of that work.

It's more complicated than that. Works published from 1978 or later (when the 1976 Copyright Act kicked in) is life + 70 years. Works published before then are 95 dates from publication.

Re:Planet eBook – Classic literature publications formatted ... by dragonwriter on Sunday October 25, 2020 @04:45PM (#24889740)
> It's more complicated than that. Works published from 1978 or later (when the 1976 Copyright Act kicked in) is life + 70 years. Works published before then are 95 dates from publication.

Actually, it's more complicated than that: for post-1978 works, life + 70 is for works of individual authors, 95 years is for works of corporate authorship.

Re:Planet eBook – Classic literature publications formatted ... by mgbennet on Sunday October 25, 2020 @04:58PM (#24889837)
Actually actually, it's even more complicated than that! Works published between 1925 and 1978 needed to file a copyright extension notice before the 28th anniversary of initial publication or the work fell into public domain.

Copyright law is a maze whose rules have changed numerous times over the decades. Here's a pretty good flowchart for U.S. copyright: https://www.sunsteinlaw.com/copyright-flowchart