Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier... Is it in public domain? And how do I know for other books in the future?

Daphne du Maurier's books wouldn't be in the public domain yet. She died in 1989, so the copyright would have been in her name until then. So, if I'm reading it correctly, 2060 would probably be the time when it would become public domain, unless some laws change.





From Wikipedia: "Copyrights are more complex than patents; generally, in current law, the copyright in a published work expires in all countries (except Colombia, Côte d'Ivoire, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Samoa, and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines) when any of the following conditions are satisfied :[2]





The work was created and first published before January 1, 1923, or at least 95 years before January 1 of the current year, whichever is later;


The last surviving author died at least 70 years before January 1 of the current year;


No Berne Convention signatory has passed a perpetual copyright on the work; and


Neither the United States nor the European Union has passed a copyright term extension since these conditions were last updated. (This must be a condition because the exact numbers in the other conditions depend on the state of the law at any given moment.)"





For more information about copyrights, read http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_doma...

Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier... Is it in public domain? And how do I know for other books in the future?
It doesn't appear that this book is in the public domain yet.





Here is a site that lets you search for books online, and those that are public domain have full view: http://books.google.com/books?hl=en
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