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Originally Posted by crich70
Not just the store but the publisher as well. These books won't be having their copyright renewed any time soon.
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You think? The translations of any recovered works will certainly be in copyright.
And I wouldn't put it past some UK lawyer to argue that a recovered text from the scrolls is a posthumous unpublished work by an author who died before 1918, and so is in copyright in the UK until 1st January 2040.
But I don't think they could pull such a trick in the US, where the maximum copyright length now, even for unpublished works, is 70 years after the authors death, or 120 years after their creation, both of which have certainly passed. (Although they might have gained a copyright until 1st January 2048 if they could have published before 1st January 2003.)