I’m always interested in the state of works in the public domain, especially as works in the U.S. have started entering said domain this year. So I was surprised, bordering on elated, to learn that the majority of books published in the U.S. before 1964 may actually be in the public domain: we don’t need to wait another 1-40 years!
Here’s a link to the change covered by Boing Boing as well as the actual posting they reference. I’ll update this post as I get more information.