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Where are you getting 70 years from? In the UK etc it's lifetime plus 70 years. These will be works whose authors died before my retired father was born.

It says authored 1929 for the US which seems to indicate 95 years? I've lost track of how long these ridiculous lengths are now.



For works produced by a company's employees and owned by the (immortal) company, its 95 years. For works produced by a mortal human it's that author's life + 70 years.

That's how it is in the US and most of Europe.




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