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Originally Posted by issybird
Part of this is easy. You can check the Stanford Copyright Renewal Database to see if books published between 1924 and 1963 had their copyrights renewed; if not, they're public domain and it's open season. |
The one minor "fly in the ointment" is that the Stanford database (as you said) only lists
book copyright renewals, and not items published in magazines, so one needs to look elsewhere (eg the Library of Congress copyright renewal database) for those. (I know you know this - I just wanted to clarify it for the benefit of others!)
If it's an author you've heard of, my first stop would always be PG. If it's not there, the odds are it's not in the US public domain.