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Originally Posted by JSWolf
When did Ayn Rand's Anthem or Harry Harrion's Deathworld (book one) become free? ...
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Harry Harrison's
Deathworld is public domain in the USA, though it wouldn't be in just about any other jurisdiction. In fact, Project Gutenberg has some 11 of Harrison's works.
Many works that were originally sold to "pulp" magazines in the 1940s through the '70s slipped in to public domain when the magazine vanished or dissolved into some other publishing house and neither they or the original author successfully renewed the copyright during the 12 month window at the end of the original copyright's 28 year span. Failure to renew properly in that critical window meant the work became PD.
There are quite a number of Philip K. Dick's works are PD in the USA even though his estate claimed to have renewed the copyright. There were a number where the renewal was late and contained false information about the date of the original publication that falsely made it look like the renewal was made legitimately.