Thread: Confused: Is there a copyright geek in the house?
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Old 10-03-2007, 11:41 AM   #7
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Originally Posted by HarryT View Post
No, with Wodehouse the PD books (in the US) are those published prior to 1923. Wodehouse is one of those authors who had a very long writing career. Note that no Wodehouse book is, strictly speaking, in the PD in the UK or, indeed, in any country other than the US.
OK so books published in the US before 1923 are in the public domain in the US irrespective of when the author died? (That might explain the status of Ulysses which IIRC was first published in 1922).
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