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F. Scott Fitzgerald's work goes into the public domain [ETA: in the EU and much of the rest of the world] on January 1, 2011. And all of James Joyce a year after that. (Actually, in the US all of Joyce's major works except Finnegans Wake are in the public domain now.)
(H. G. Wells's major sf novels don't go into the public domain in the UK until 2015, though they were mostly written 20-35 years earlier.)
(The amendment noted above is due to the near-psychotic randomness of US copyright law. Works that were first published in the US and were first published between 1923 and 1964 enjoy copyright protection for 95 years if their copyrights were properly renewed 28 years after publication. It's a pretty safe bet that the copyright on The Great Gatsby was properly renewed in 1953, so it will be under copyright in the US until 2020.)
(H. G. Wells's major sf novels don't go into the public domain in the UK until 2015, though they were mostly written 20-35 years earlier.)
(The amendment noted above is due to the near-psychotic randomness of US copyright law. Works that were first published in the US and were first published between 1923 and 1964 enjoy copyright protection for 95 years if their copyrights were properly renewed 28 years after publication. It's a pretty safe bet that the copyright on The Great Gatsby was properly renewed in 1953, so it will be under copyright in the US until 2020.)
