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Originally Posted by bill_mchale
And you think he would have let the copyright on those stories lapse if he had been alive? ... And please don't treat people like slow witted children just because you don't understand the full thread of their thoughts.
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Yes, I do. It's almost all stuff that was originally published in magazines, and
most of that didn't get its copyright renewed, because the idea of scanning magazines obviously didn't exist at the time. Eg, the book you recommended, "Space Viking", was originally serialised in
Analog magazine, and it's that magazine version that's in the US public domain, not its subsequent novelisation. As I say, nothing to do with his death, and that's not treating anyone like "slow-witted children", it's simply stating a fact. PG has hundred - probably thousands, by now - of magazine SF stories which are written by authors who
didn't die soon after writing them. Their copyrights could have been renewed, but weren't. It simply didn't occur to anyone at the time that there was a commercial market for this stuff.