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Originally Posted by pdurrant
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And I wouldn't put it past some UK lawyer to argue that a recovered text from the scrolls is a posthumous unpublished work by an author who died before 1918, and so is in copyright in the UK until 1st January 2040.
But I don't think they could pull such a trick in the US, where the maximum copyright length now, even for unpublished works, is 70 years after the authors death, or 120 years after their creation, both of which have certainly passed.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.)
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Maybe the translations, but not the original tongue I'd guess. Who knows when they will be released though.
Of course some legal eagle could point out that there is no way to be sure that (book title) by (author's name) was really written by them some 2000 yrs ago and therefore isn't a forgery or still in copyright. lol