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Originally Posted by Ralph Sir Edward
Smith posed a problem. He is PD in Life + 50, under copyright under life +70, and mostly still under copyright in the US. First Lensman was not renewed, plus most of his shorter works. Nor was his collaboration with E. Evelyn Smith renewed. Also the First two skylarks were not renewed.
So most of his works are still under copyright, and most of those omnibus edition are copyright infringements - at least in the US. I haver no clue who is handling the estate these days. His daughter is dead. . .
(The Skylark 0f Space is a very thorny copyright problem. There are three versions of it. The 1926 version is PD (copyright not renewed). The 1947 version is unknown. The 1958 version (which is what most readers here would think of as The Skylark of Space) is still under copyright.
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I believe that several of his books (Skylark of Space being one, I think Triplanetary is another) were originally published as magazine serials, and the serials are no longer under copyright...but the novels are. If you grab the PG version of Skylark, hang on to your paper copy of the novel, they're different.
This is HarryT's 'fly in the ointment'.
