Winnie-the-Pooh entered public domain in the USA, but how is it possible when the book wasn’t even in the USA?
Does that mean the USA puts any book from the world in their public domain as long as it has been more than 90 years? Do USA law can really have that power across other jurisdictions?
Like if a country has a law protecting their books for more than 100 years, seem unfair that America can suddenly break that copyright.
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Being in the public domain is the default status. “In the public domain” just means “not copyrighted”.
It was published in the US so naturally it was copyrighted in the US.
Copyright laws vary from country to country. UK copyright and US copyright aren’t the same. The reason articles talk about Winnie the Pooh going public domain in the US is because it isn’t public domain in the UK yet.
Sometimes it’s the other way around. Sherlock Holmes became copyright free in the UK a while before he was fully copyright free in the US.
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