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Originally Posted by gweeks
1972 was while the US was still using the 1909 Copyright act with 28+something copyrights.
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That makes more sense, I'd been thinking 1964 was the cutoff since that's when the PD stuff seems to end at the US Project Gutenberg; thanks for the info.
It looks like the author got screwed not so much by any negligence on her or her agent/lawyers' part when looking over and signing the original contract, but just by the US copyright laws changing around her and the passage of unexpected end-reader technological advances over time.