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Originally Posted by Ralph Sir Edward
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?
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The "rule of the shorter term" has applied and not applied at different times in UK copyright law. I believe I'm correct in saying that it
didn't apply between 1955 and 1995, which means that anything which entered the US public domain between these dates
didn't also enter the UK public domain, whereas anything which entered the UK public domain
before 1955 or
after 1995 is also in the UK public domain.
So whether or not a work that's in the US public domain, that would otherwise be protected by copyright in the UK, under our "life+70" copyright law, is also in the UK public domain depends on the year that it entered the US public domain.
Do you happen to know when the "Skylark" stories became public domain in the US?