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Old 10-14-2016, 09:24 AM   #24752
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Originally Posted by Pulpmeister View Post
He died in 1944, 72 years ago. So, unless my count-on-my fingers arithmetic is shaky, his works are now in the public domain in the USA, and other life+70 countries. There are a few of his books on Project Gutenberg, and rather more on Gutenberg Australia, because of the vagaries of Australian copyright law which saw Max Brand's books enter the Australian public domain in 1995.
The USA is not (yet) a life+70 country, and I think only the works written before 1923 are definitely going to be out of copyright there. That might be why Gutenberg doesn't have very much.

It's a little frustrating that there aren't better non-US sources for out-of-copyright material. There's some good stuff becoming available in life+70 countries like mine which is difficult to find. I've been looking for ER Eddison, myself, and HG Wells will be out of copyright on the 1st Jan 2017.
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