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Originally Posted by sufue
Interesting...
I wonder if this particular title fell out of copyright somehow in the US or something?
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According to Wikipedia, it was published in the UK in 1924 and in the US in 1925. If that is correct and if, and only if, it's US copyright was formally renewed in 1953 then it would be still under copyright in the US today. If the US publication date for copyright purposes was actually in 1924 then it would be in the public domain. Also, if the renewal failed to happen during the last year of the original copyright or if that renewal contained critical errors, it would, again, be in the public domain in the US.
Formal renewal was critical to extending the copyright in the US. The oldest works that were automatically "grandfathered" in to the new copyright terms date from 1964. Earlier works were only grandfathered if their original copyright has been properly extended by formally renewing the copyright, which could be done only during the last year of the original copyright.