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Originally Posted by Pulpmeister
There's many thousands more, and an astounding number of them are anonymous, so of course I can't post them here; or are by authors who are (a) unknown to Google, or (b) pseudonymous and unknown to Google, with the same result.
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I am not a lawyer, and I am not the owner of this site. But if I have any say, my interpretation is:
* Works by authors for which no reliable information can be found, or by pseudonyms for which the real person behind is unknown (which is arguably the same thing) are as good as anonymous.
* Copyright for anonymous works (including the above) typically expires x years after publication. The value of x may change across countries.
* If the identity or death date of the author becomes known, the copyright status of the work may change accordingly.
For the purposes of "allowing" works in the MR library, I consider publication date + 70 years (i.e., as if the author died the year it was published). Even if there are later works published under the same name, since there is no data, there is also no evidence it is the same person, or it isn't a pseudonym.