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"In the United States, under an extension of copyright law, 'Gone With the Wind'' will not enter the public domain until 2031, 95 years after its original publication.

"But in Australia, as in a handful of other places, the book was free of copyright restrictions in 1999, 50 years after Mitchell's death. "