We lose stories every day because they drift out of use and into the vast limbo of in-copyright, out-of-print books whose ownership is unclear.
But at the end of the year the copyright runs out, meaning Mein Kampf – or My Struggle – falls into the public domain on 1 January.
Once the original copyright ran out, he regained ownership of the song in 1988, a year after Joe Cocker had a Top 40 hit with it.
The Beatles' Love Me Do was recorded in 1962 and, according to UK law, master recording copyrights run out after 50 years.
Copyright before sending out your film.
There was the prospect of Google claiming copyright over their out-of-print books.
Developing this copyright protection turns out to be no small technological challenge.
The textbooks are printed legally in India under copyright arrangements worked out over the last decade by American and British publishers.
The Sweet Home organization held a workshop for Indians on the topic last fall, and is pressing them to fill out copyright forms for this year's suits.
Another high-profile copyright fight broke out in Hollywood, and this one could be the broadest the industry has yet seen.
