Faulkner, Hesse Lead Public Domain Day 2013
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Wednesday January 02, 2013
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Wallace McLean has posted his annual celebration
of public domain day, listing dozens of authors whose work entered into
the public domain in Canada on New Year's Day. Notable names this year
include Nobel Prize winners William Faulkner and Herman Hesse as well
as poet e.e. cummings. The list is particularly notable this year as
Canada is participating in the Trans Pacific Partnership negotiations,
which include U.S. proposals
to extend the term of copyright in Canada to life of the author plus 70
years (from the current life plus 50). If adopted, the change would
mean that no new works would enter the Canadian public domain for two
decades.
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