--- Tom Parmenter <tompar(a)world.std.com> wrote:
For poetry fair use:
[[William Butler Yeats]] quotes 8 out of 22 lines from the poem, "The
Second Coming", which was first published in 1922, but surely has a
later copyright due to republication in collected works, etc.
No, if it was first published in 1922, then it's in the public domain
period. Later republications of the identical poem don't extend the
copyright (otherwise, that would be a loophole to drive a truck
through).
Imran may be right on this. Yeats died in 1939, so the life + 70 of UK
law should apply unless there was something in that law to prevent
retroactivity of the law, in which case it would be life + 50 and all of
Yeats works would be in the public domain. See [[Copyright case law]]
where it was ruled that ownership goes by the law of the copyright
owner's country.
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