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Originally Posted by HarryT
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?
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Harry, Greg Weeks would know better than I do, but I think the Magazine version of the Skylark of Space should have entered the public domain in 1954. (1926 + 28 years). Skylark 3 would have been in 1958, clearly in to non-apply range, so it would not be in the UK public domain.