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Originally Posted by badgoodDeb
Charles Williams died in 1945. Is this book now public domain???
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It's irrelevant when he died when considering the US public domain. All that matters is when the book was published. This book was published in 1945, which means that no, it's not in the US public domain, and it would copyright infringement for you to download it from a site where it was in the public domain, such as PG Australia.
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Anyway ... I'm ready to re-read it immediately, and correct the text file from the DTB in my hands, if anyone else is capable of converting the text file into all the other formats that MR offers ebooks in. Dr Drib, I know you were interested in it in 2008, and were lamenting the poor copy that Gutenberg had.
Is this now permissible? Is anyone willing to do the other half of the work, if I correct the flat text file? Calibre created a flat text file for me, from the PRC that I have.
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It can be hosted on MR on 1st Jan 2016, which is when it enters the "life+70" public domain, but to repeat, it is
not in the public domain in the US, and you mustn't download it.