public domain day -- in Canada | January 1, 2004 | Larry Lessig | lessig.org

"Wallace McLean sent the following:

'Today, January 1, 2004, every unpublished document whose author had died on or before December 31, 1948, has passed from copyright into the public domain in Canada....'

Here in America, we'll celebrate our next public domain day in, um, 15 years."