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Originally Posted by GtrsRGr8
The following three ebooks are provided as free downloads by a company in England, called Harmatan and Oakridge Leathers 2008 Ltd. They are a manufacturer of fine goatskins and calfskin bookbinding leathers (remember those? ha).
You may notice that the copyright date, of 1905, is given on two of the books (I couldn't find a date for the third one, but it is old, too). You may be wondering why I'm posting these. They are well out of copyright? Right? Well, apparently they aren't, because they were copyrighted in England and/or the U.K., which have different copyright laws than in the U.S. In each one of the pdfs below, there is a statement relating to the fact that the books are copyrighted and not to be reused without permission.
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The links below are all direct links to the pdfs.
Leather for Libraries.
Leathers for Bookbinding & Upholstery.
The Wonderful Story of Leather. |
It was quite unusual for a British book to
have a copyright notice before about 1955.
But yes, if the author was still alive in 1946, Life+70 means it's still in copyright in the UK.