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Originally Posted by crich70
I found an article (it was released in six parts originally) that was written back in 1835 which featured "the Great Moon Hoax." It was part of a webpage when I found it. Would it be considered as under copyright due to having been posted to the site or would it be out of copyright due to having been written back in 1835? I thought about posting epub and kindle format copies of the article to Mobileread but don't want to accidentally violate copyright if it is in force due to being posted online.
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An interesting question. I try to get permission from the poster of the new 'version', if there are any changes. But if it's just a reprint I don't ask for permission. I don't believe that the markup which makes it available for reading on a computer is copyright; but I don't have any documentation. I always give the credit to wherever I got the source text from.
I'm not putting this forward as guidance; just as what I do, and am very interested in following this thread.