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Originally Posted by SBT
Grmf… according to wikipedia, Edmund Wilson only departed from this vale of tears in 1972. |
Axel's Castle was published in 1931. I hadn't even thought to check Wilson's dates because the book has been available from Archive.org for such a long time. I used to have copies of his diary-derived books,
The Twenties and
The Thirties and thought of him as Fitzgerald's contemporary, which he was.
I also hadn't realized that
even Fitz's books won't be in the public domain until 2021.
If the terms of U.S. copyright law are always the life of the author plus 70 years, then why has
Axel's Castle been available on archive.org since 2005? Does that San-Francisco-based site not honor said terms in its own country?