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Are there any countries that enforce copyright as much as the US do? I have no idea when a book legally enters public domain in Russia, since any book I can think of is a couple clicks away. Literally anything: Nabokov, Rowling, etc

Edit: come to think of it, it's pretty universal. Libgen and bookfi are not exactly Russian. There's probably little difference whether a book is public domain unless you want to make a movie.

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> There's probably little difference whether a book is public domain unless you want to make a movie.

Or if you want to publish other works based on the book: a translation, a critical edition, a compilation, a graphic novel...

“ Are there any countries that enforce copyright as much as the US do?”

I’d say definitely yes. Most western countries are very similar in this regard.

> Most western countries are very similar in this regard.

I suspect the Venn diagram of countries with similar copyright terms, and countries with trade agreements requiring them to have similar copyright terms, would overlap almost 100%.

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