Happy Public Domain Day! from Wallace J.McLean on 2004-01-01 (CNI-COPYRIGHT)

"Today, January 1, 2004, every unpublished document whose author had died on or before December 31, 1948, has passed from copyright into the public domain in Canada.

As of today, millions of pages of archival heritage, in hundreds of archival institutions, have become the common property of all Canadians.

You are free to make use of this heritage in any way you want, by publishing, digitizing, compiling, translating, adapting, dramatizing, or treating the material in any other way. It's yours to enjoy and share with whomever, whenever, in whatever way you want.

Also today, the published works of people who had the good sense to die in 1953 have become public domain in Canada and any other country which retains the life+50 rule for copyright term. These people include Polish poet Julian Tuwim, British mathematician Alan Turing..."