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Alle Werke von Autoren, die seit 70 Jahren verstorben sind, werden weltweit gemeinfrei. Je nach Land variiert diese Schutz-Dauer zwischen 50 und 70 Jahren nach dem Tod eines Kulturschaffenden, wobei vereinzelt auch Übergangsfristen aufgrund von Verlängerungen bestehen.

In the life+50 universe, which constitute the largest cohort of countries, including Canada, which collectively have the majority of the world's population, life-plus copyrights expired at midnight for those authors, or last-surviving of multiple authors, who died in 1958. Some notable life+50 entries into the public domain include life+50 copyrights for authors such as

Everybody is talking about "illegal copying" (most often in propagandist terms like "stealing" or "piracy"), but nobody of the opposite: Taking a work in public domain and slapping your copyright-notice over it; something which very much borders on plagiarism. And of course asserting to have a copyright on something which you are not entitled to is also a violation of copyright. The very funny thing is, there is a repository of thousands of books whose copyright is violated this way. It's books.google.com. Nowhere else, such a mass of works wrongly tagged "copyrighted material" can be found.