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Originally Posted by HarryT
Jack - what's the copyright status of this book? Where are these stories in the public domain? I'd love to download it, but I want check first that it's OK for me to do so in the UK!
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Perfectly Understandable.
All the stories come from The H. P. Lovecraft Archive, URL:
www.hplovecraft.com.
According to my whois lookup, they are registered in the U.S.
So far I've not been able to find any evidence that U.K. citizens are not allow to access these stories due to copyright issues (needed to check this as being a U.K. resident myself). For the U.S., some people are claiming the copyright, but they have failed to produce any evidence that the copyright was in fact renewed, therefore in the U.S. thay are classed as out-of-copyright because of this. The same pretty much goes for Canada as well.
So I've worked under the assumption that they are in the public domain in the U.K., U.S. and Canada based on this research.
This also goes for my other Lovecraft books as well.
I think it's pretty safe for you to download the books. If you do, don't hesitate to make comments or send me any corrections. Also note; like a lot of other works, there may be other versions of these stories out there and contain different content (i.e. missing or added paragraphs, changed spelling or punctuation), if you also have and any details of these, you can also let me know so I can make a comparison and see if this changed content should belong as am trying to make the stories as close to what Lovecraft intended (hopefully).