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Originally Posted by crich70
Yeah or if someone claims the works of Stephen King are out of copyright that should send up some flags too. As I remember someone posted about such a claim here at MR not long ago. Considering you have to be dead for a given time for such copyright to lapse anyone seeing a living author's works offered as out of copyright should know that such isn't the case.
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For the sake of accuracy, I should point out that this is not necessarily true in the United States. It used to be the case in the US that copyright had to be registered, and renewed, and that if the renewal was not done, the work entered the public domain. That's how all the magazine SF short stories, many of which are by living authors, ended up on "Project Gutenberg". It is ONLY in the public domain in the US, though; nowhere else.