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It's typically shorter than both the U.S. and Europe: 50 years postmortem. For example, Ernest Hemingway (died 1961) entered the public domain in Canada last year. In most of Europe (life+70) his works will enter the public domain in 2032, and in the U.S. (95 years from publication, for works published before 1978) they'll enter at staggered times starting from the 2020s.

That's why this exists: http://www.gutenberg.ca/



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