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Originally Posted by Catlady
Many of Ian Fleming's books were published at the time when copyright in the U.S. was subject to renewal requirements. If any copyrights were not renewed, the books are in the public domain.
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Unfortunately it's more complex than that. With Ian Fleming being an English author GATT come into this. I wouldn't even try to decide if any of his works were PD in the US based on non-renewal. They might be, but the determination gets hairy. Project Gutenberg won't even bother when one of the authors is a known non-US citizen that's a non-US resident. It's too easy to miss something and get it wrong. Now, that isn't a statement that I think they are all under copyright. I just don't know.
That GATT changes means there are cases for non-US authors to have no renewals, but still have a work under copyright.
For US authors the determination of non-renewal status is bad enough.
Greg