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Originally Posted by gweeks
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
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OK, I bow to your greater knowledge. But this just illustrates the point that copyright law is so confusing and complex that it's an unfair burden to expect an individual to try to wade through the morass before downloading something for personal use. One just relies on the site to have behaved lawfully.