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Originally Posted by HarryT
No, it depends solely on whether or not the copyright was renewed at the appropriate time. Harrison only died in 2012, so if copyright was renewed, the stories are in copyright. Simple at that. Who held the rights at the time that renewal was required would of course determine who had to do the renewal, but it wouldn't change the basic fact that renewal was required.
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But which would be more likely to remember to do such renewal? I mean take Edmund Hamilton as an example. He died Feb 1st 1977 and his novel "City at World's End" was published in 1951 and it is available at sites like Manybooks.net so I assume the copyright wasn't renewed for some reason. Anyway I don't know why it wasn't renewed, but I'd think a publisher would be more likely to remember than the author since they would lose profits if a living author's work went out of copyright. On the other hand you would think the author would keep an eye on his writings as well what with the labor of creating them in the 1st place.
