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Originally Posted by Ralph Sir Edward
You have a similar problem the other way, too. An American author published a work in the UK in 1930, and later in the US. The author died in 1940. Is it P.D. in the UK while still being under US copyright?
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It would most assuredly be in the UK public domain, since the author died more than 70 years ago. I believe, though, that (provided its copyright was correctly registered and renewed in the US) it would still be protected by copyright in the US, because the "rule of the shorter term" does not apply between the US and the UK.