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dies, the rights to benefit from a work passes to his/her family and continues for 70 years after the creator’s death; at that point, the work enters the public domain.
There are many books, movies, newspapers that are in Public Domain. These are no longer cover by copyright and can be used by anyone, fully, or changed to suit the new author.
For example every issue of any magazine, who’s copyright was not renewed in the U.S.A. between the years of 1923 and 1964 becomes Public Domain. Records show only about 1,500 ever renewed their copyrights. Every issue of any magazine whose copyright was not renewed in the 28th year of first publication is now Public Domain.
A work may be in the public domain because:
It was created before copyright laws.
Its copyright protection has expired.
It never had copyright protection or its