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Originally Posted by Ghitulescu
Nope., 1923 - it's the year when US accepted the copyright claims from overseas.
I am not talking about US since copyright is not an US-only concept. But anyway, the fact that all those authors received education on other people's money remains, and should not be forgotten. In ther past, when the church was the only schooling system in the world, the pupils were practically oriented towards church business, some of them being lent to state authorities for drafting acts and other legal businesses (thus the origin of the words clerk and clerical error since the church, widespreading the God's word, cannot possibly be wrong  )
The author should release the work to the public when the public decides s/he should do it. An inventor working in a company cannot claim the invention for himself, for the same reason, he used company resources to invent it. Why the public be always the stupid in this game, and only the companies get the profit and benefits?
However, reading the Bible does not contravene the separation of church from the state? |
I think you are a bit confused. Books written outside the US have always been able to get copyright in the US. You just had to go through the US registration process. If you don't go through the US registration process, you don't get automatic copyright protection just because you have a copyright in the UK, for example. That is what the whole unauthorized Ace "Lord of the Rings" edition was all about. Part of signing the Berne convention treaty in 1976 was recognizing each signee's copyrights.
https://www.kirkusreviews.com/featur...ed-lord-rings/