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Subject:	Re: all works first published in the United States in 1923 will enter the public domain January 1
From:	Brendan Whyte <[log in to unmask]>
Reply To:	Maps-L: Map Librarians, etc.
Date:	Fri, 21 Dec 2018 05:14:46 +0000
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Interesting. And it affects other countries too.
In Australia, all maps used to enter public domain 50 years after publication.... until the US-Australia free trade agreement of 2005, when non-government mapping copyright was extended to 70 years.
So here, all maps pre-1955 are public domain, and government mapping (from any government, worldwide) up to 1967 is public domain.
Government mapping dated 1968 will enter public domain on 1 January 2019, per the 50-year rule.
But non-government mapping continues to suffer the 20-year hiatus too: private commercial maps from 1956 won't enter the public domain until  1 Jan 2026... all because of Mickey Mouse and Sonny Bono.

As for book, the protection is life+70, so authors dying in 1948 will have their entire published oeuvre become public domain on 1 Jan 2019. Looks like we have 25 years on you there!

Brendan Whyte
National Library of Australia

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