[gweeks]

Originally Posted by Synamon

If you are referring to Right Ho, Jeeves, it's copyright expired and wasn't renewed, so it's public domain in the US. More details here: http://spontaneousderivation.com/200...tenberg-texts/

It's not a renewal case. My understanding is that it was published in the US with a copyright notice that claimed a copyright from before 1923. Up until 1989, the copyright notice was important for US publication. The date in the notice started the clock for when the copyright ended. If you published it with an incorrect date, it could have two effects. If you published with a date in the future, you simly had an invalid notice and the work was thrust immediatly into the public domain. If you had the date in the past, it simply became the effective date of the start of your copyright term.

Greg Weeks