| | Public domain - Open Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19) |
 | | Likewise, works that were created long before such laws were passed are part of the public domain, such as the works of William Shakespeare and Ludwig van Beethoven and the inventions of Archimedes (however, translations of the works of Archimedes, Shakespeare, etc., may be subject to copyright). |
 | | Note that copyright term extension under U.S. tradition does not restore copyright to public domain works (hence the 1923 date), but European tradition does because the EU harmonization was based on the copyright term in Germany, which had already been extended to life plus 70. |
 | | Parliamentary Copyright documents become public domain at the end of the year 50 years after they were published. |
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