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Originally Posted by pdurrant
It might have (possibly) been in the US public domain in 1970. It isn't now.
It was first published in 1926 in the UK. It was published in the US in 1927. Hope Mirrless was not a US citizen. It was still in copyright in the UK on 1 January 1996
So, looking at http://www.copyright.cornell.edu/public_domain/
It seems to me that in US law it's in copyright until 95 years after publication - that's until 1st Janury 2022
In the UK it's in copyright until 1st January 2049
In Canada it's in copyright until 1st January 2029 |
it's a gray zone here in the US. If the copyright was pre 1964 and not properly renewed, then the book should be in the public domain. There was a thread a few months ago here about the US court ruling that foreign copyrights existence doesn't force the US copyright back into existence for such cases. But I think it was an appellate and not Supreme court ruling.
Project Gutenberg won't touch foreign authors with unrenewed US copyrights. Several Eric Frank Russell books fall under that category...
Here's the link
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=44346