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Not trying to contest, just asking...

Brecht died in 1956, so +70 years (as per German law) would be end of 2026, right?



That would depend on the country right? USA doesn't have a life+, so it's a hard date of 1928.


To be precise, the US does have life+70 for works published after 1978. The rest of the world went that route and the US begrudgingly followed, but the works published before the switchover date are grandfathered into the old system. The US copyright regime is a real rats' nest of complexity, see https://guides.library.cornell.edu/copyright/publicdomain


> The US copyright regime is a real rats' nest of complexity

The likely alternative would be (even more) retroactive copyright extensions which would be much worse.


Until they bribe the supremes to revise the ruling.




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