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Originally Posted by pdurrant
First published in 1971, and in book form in 1972. So even if copyright was only 50 years after publication, it would be in copyright until at least 2022.
But copyright isn't 50 years after publication. In the USA, the copyright for this book runs until 2067, and in EU/UK until 2076.
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Oh well, been a while since I last read it, and as for dates I plead " if you remember the 60s, you weren't really there".
I do remember reading hunter s Thomson's biography, or auto biography, a while back and that was interesting. He makes a passing appearance in Tom Wolfe's kool aid acid test book, which I re read after watching the Amazon video series on the grateful dead. That's a book that has not aged very well and finding a decent e copy was a pain. I don't think it ever got published as an epub and the print copy used a lot of arty layout tricks that would not carry over well.
And that will be another case of old book, dead author. But still in copyright.
But in my pdf download defence, I do have a paperback version somewhere in the attic still, I think. And if it was shrink-wrapped and not tatty it might even be valuable. Come to think of it , fear and loathing used to be up there also, if it survived various clearouts.
By 2076 who knows, LSD may be legal again and there will be a "lick here" spot on the cover special commemorative issue :-)