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Re:January 1, 2023 is Public Domain Day: Works from 1927 are... by int_19h on Wednesday December 21, 2022 @02:30AM (#34077699)
Original copyright terms didn't last for a lifetime, either.
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Re:January 1, 2023 is Public Domain Day: Works from 1927 are... by Oxidation on Wednesday December 21, 2022 @06:58AM (#34079512)
It's more like 2 lifetimes now: it's usually 70 years after the death of the author, which can be substantially longer than 95 years.
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