From: John Wilkin <[log in to unmask]> Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2013 21:41:05 -0500 Klaus is essentially right about HathiTrust, and I believe that roughly the same thing is true for Google. Per guidance from Michigan's General Counsel, HathiTrust uses a default value of 140 years for countries that use "life + 70" for their term of copyright. If the author's death date is known (and significant resources are going into determining death dates for some countries), the actual death date + 70 is used. Now, or very soon, HathiTrust will be using 120 years for "life + 50" countries; again, an actual death date overrides this default value. All of this applies to users outside of the US viewing works published outside of the United States, and the date used (e.g., 1873) changes automatically at the turn of the year. On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 5:59 PM, LIBLICENSE <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > From: Klaus Graf <[log in to unmask]> > Date: Sun, 18 Aug 2013 15:44:19 +0200 > > Google Books is blocking users outside the US since years if they want > to use books published after 1872 (in 2013). Of course the same > restrictions apply at Google Play and as I may add at HathiTrust. > > Klaus Graf