User blog comment:ElyaqimNYC/Not in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author’s life plus seventy years/@comment-6417519-20160707214611/@comment-27155766-20160707220511

It has relevence in the twenty‐ first century on the Internet, if for example a European publishes something on a US site or vice versa. And whether something is in the public domain in its country of origin is a strong determining factor used by academic insitutions to identify what is in the public domain.