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Originally Posted by Hellmark
In the US, as far as I know, it would be out of copyright.
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It would be over here, too, and hist other works are, but this is a special case since it hasn't been published before. The EU copyright directive grants a special 25 year protection for such works. The English term is "publication right", I believe.
American copyright is somewhat (?) more complicated, it's true. A quick search lets me believe that all works entered the public domain in the United States on January 1, 2003, if the following provisions are met:
(1) works were unpublished as of January 1, 1978, and had never been
registered for copyright protection,
(2) they remained unpublished through December 31, 2002,
(3) the author died on or before December 31, 1936.
ACD would fit the bill, it seems.