On 21/07/05, dpbsmith@verizon.net dpbsmith@verizon.net wrote:
I have to believe that Project Gutenberg knows is or is not in the public domain, that after sixteen years the odds are that the British Crown knows that Project Gutenberg is doing it, and if they haven't complained there is probably a good reason.
AIUI, this particular copyright is not recognised under the Berne Convention (since it's effectively "in perpetuity")... so it's become public domain anywhere that's not under the Crown. And PG, of course, is an American organisation :-)