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Originally Posted by pwalker8
Books written outside the US have always been able to get copyright in the US.
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I am not talking about modern books, LOTR and stuff. I am talking about the times when US had no writers, and they stole works from Europe, and Europe complained as US complains today about China.
AFAIK the first time when non-US citizens could get a copyright in the US was after the major reform of the law, in 1923. Wikipedia appears to promote an earlier date, 1891, yet I've searched the online CCE library for non-US citizens and found them only after 1924 - not to say there were none, just that I found none in a rather extensive search.
Even the fact that only in 1976 US adhered to Berne Convention says a lot about this.