I recently learned about the book *Julia*, a retelling of *1984* from Julia’s perspective by Sandra Newman. I haven’t read it yet, since I’m waiting for my turn with it on a library app, but it seems like it uses names and ideas from *1984* pretty liberally, which I would have thought would breach copyright.
I know that *1984* is in a weird position when it comes to the public domain, since it has been more than 70 years since Orwell’s death, which I understand to be the EU rule, but less than 95 years since publication, which seems to be the US rule. I would have thought that publishing a book like this would be legal in the EU, but illegal in the US for another 20 years.
Can someone help me understand what I’m missing here?
by magpiesovereign