27 Sep
2013
27 Sep
'13
12:24 a.m.
Les Kitchen wrote:
In reply to Trent Buck:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Books_v._Cigarettes
Sadly not on gutenberg.net.au anymore, because the US/AU FTA moved it out of the public domain :-/
Not true. You just have to bore a bit deeper. It's actually in a collection, "Fifty Orwell's Essays". See
http://gutenberg.net.au/pages/orwell.html
Even if it wasn't there, the FTA would be unlikely to be the immediate reason. While the FTA shifted us from death of author plus 50 years to death plus 70 years, John Howard (bless his heart) didn't make it retroactive (as happened in some other countries, like Ireland -- possibly the U.S. too, but I'm not so sure about the retroactivity of their change).
Cool, thanks for the correction.