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Originally Posted by HarryT
No it isn't. SF Gateway are a British publisher; the original magazine version of the Skylark stories are in the US public domain, but none of them are in the UK public domain, and it's the novel versions that SF Gateway have the rights to and are selling.
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Correct - US public domain. The rest is correct. The magazine version was a serialization of an existing unpublished novel, completed in 1920. (Smith was paid $125 US for the serialization.) The "novel" version is the 1958 re-write by Smith, to bring the story up to the writing standards of 1958...
All non-posthumus E.E. Smith PHD works, will be PD in Life + 50 in 2016, Life + 70 in 2036.
However, Harry, inasmuch as certain versions are P.D. in the US, how does the pre-Berne treaties for copyright between the US and the UK affect the UK copyright status?