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Originally Posted by Dulin's Books
people are missing i think that the monkey said renewable copyright not perpetual copyright. the holder would have to make a case or meet some standard for the rights to be renewed. if no one stepped up at right time to renew or didnt meet the standard/criteria etc then it would still become public domain.
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Originally Posted by crich70
Yep. That's how come "City at World's End" by Edmund Hamilton is already PD I think. He wrote it in the 50's and you wouldn't think it would be PD yet but apparently he didn't renew the copyright or his estate didn't depending on when it ran out and so it's PD already.
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Yep; if you don't renew the copyright, your book becomes public domain. If you don't pay your property taxes, your house becomes public domain (ie; eviction, followed by auction).