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Originally Posted by hobnail
Now I can't get archive.org to find the book I'm talking about; the title is Hoofbeats. I only saw it when I accidentally forgot to restrict the search to texts. But here's another book by him that's limited to an hour. He died in 1946.
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Thanks for the link. That helps.
If the book was published in 1933, it may or may not be still under copyright in the US. That book falls into the 1923-1963 range, where copyrights had to be renewed.
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Stanford's Copyright Renewal Database:
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The period from 1923-1963 is of special interest for US copyrights, as works published after January 1, 1964 had their copyrights automatically renewed by statute, and works published before 1923 have generally been in the public domain. Between those dates, determining whether a work's registration was renewed as required has been a challenge. Renewals received by the Copyright Office after 1977 are searchable in an online database, but renewals received between 1950 and 1977 were distributed only in a semi-annual print publication which has not been made searchable.
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I did a search for that author/book, and don't see any renewals. This only means it
may be public domain in the US*, it's not a guarantee.
I could see why the Internet Archive might err on the side of "still copyrighted" since IA is US-based.
If he died in 1946, then most other countries in the world have Life+70, which would become public domain in 2016.
Maybe someone can get a copy of
Hoofbeats over to Gutenberg Canada.