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Originally Posted by doubleshuffle
I'd say Feedbooks got it wrong. Wells died in 1946, so his work will be in the Life +70 public domain from 1 January 2017.
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According to Wikipedia, he died in 1950, that makes it 2021.
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Originally Posted by JSWolf
War of the Worlds was published before 1923 also, PG has it available and you know they do their homework as far as being PD.
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PD in the US, which is irrelevant to our library: strictly life+70 (with some exceptions that don't apply in this case).
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Originally Posted by pynch
Talking about the offline forums: where’s Saint-Exupéry? He died in 1944, but his Le petit Prince hasn’t been put back online yet.
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There's no automatic handling of this. We have been waiting for some updated library system for some time, but it's obvious it won't happen soon enough. I guess we'll have to discuss how to proceed.