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Over time, the protection of copyright has been greatly expanded. A work is now protected, with limited exceptions, for the life of the creator plus 70 years after they die, or if it's a work of joint authorship, life + 70 years of the last surviving author. For anonymous/pseudonymous works or works made by a corporate entity, the term is 95 years from date of publication (which is what triggered copyright before the 1976 Act passed and has its own complicated set of rules) or 120 years from date of creation. But don't expect that figure to be set in stone; it used to be the life of the creator plus 50 years (and, in Canada, it still is), or 75+publication/100+ creation for works that cannot be attributed to individual creators. The Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act added 20 years to all works still under protection, something that the Supreme Court found to [http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?court=US&vol=000&invol=01-618 Constitutional] because the term was still "limited."
The standard [[Fan Fic Disclaimer]] that you are not doing it for profit may make it less likely that you'll be sued, but it won't rule it out.<ref>the not-for-profit portion of [[Fair Use]] doesn't actually apply here anyway</ref><ref>NOTE: The rules are very slightly different in Canada - not to the point where you can knowingly break copyright, but [https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/C-42/page-9.html#h-103295 there are a very small number of circumstances where "I didn't make any money at all from this" is a valid defence in Canada]. However, if you know enough to put this sort of disclaimer on your fanfic, then these legal exemptions don't apply to your work anyway - one of the circumstances is that you didn't know what you were doing was an infringement.</ref> See [[Digital Piracy Is Evil]] for more on this.
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