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Originally Posted by dhbailey
Are you sure that's public domain? Anything published in the U.S. in 1959 would have been in its first period of copyright (28 years) when the copyright laws were rewritten in 1978 to give such works a single copyright period of 75 years, which was subsequently extended to 95 years under the Sonny Bono act.
The only way such a story would be public domain, at least in the U.S. would be if the copyright holder specifically placed it in the public domain.
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Project Gutenberg thinks it's PD:
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/23892
I don't believe the changes in copyright laws were retroactive. If the author or author's estate didn't specifically renew, PD it is.
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Dennis