"The novel remains in copyright until at least 2044."
Our revised copyright extensions (which the author of this article sees as having a potential to change yet again) fly in the face of our Constitutional fair use provisions (all works were to eventually lapse into the public domain).
And while this book may be of British origin, Europe didn't extend the copyrights on American music the last time around. They consider Elvis, Sinatra, and other recordings from 50 years ago public domain.
All of that postdates Orwell's work.
Besides there are plenty of other works from which Orwell borrowed consciously or unconsciously. For example: Fritz Lang's 1927 film classic Metropolis. Or Bellamy's futuristic fantasy of 1881 "Looking Backward". Many others.
And while this book may be of British origin, Europe didn't extend the copyrights on American music the last time around. They consider Elvis, Sinatra, and other recordings from 50 years ago public domain.
All of that postdates Orwell's work.
Yup. And if you go to Project Gutenberg Australia, you'll find that 1984 is not under copyright there. Neither is Animal Farm
Many other books and authors that are available because Australia's more reasonable laws, are available HERE