Copyright Term and the Public Domain in the United States

This chart from the Cornell University Copyright Information Center was first published in published by Peter B. Hirtle in "Recent Changes To The Copyright Law: Copyright Term Extension," Archival Outlook, January/February 1999, and is now current as of 6 July 2004.

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