From: Ray Saintonge saintonge@telus.net

The EU generally follows a life plus 70 rule. For quick reference I use the site http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/okbooks.html#whatpd

Thanks for reminding me of that link. When I was at the Boston meetup, I mentioned to JamesDay that the UPenn site had a reference to a very obscure possible exception to the 1923 rule, and that was it, or more specifically

http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/c-fineprint.html

It says that _possibly_ a work published within the juridiction of the Ninth Circuit Court _might_ still be under copyright if a) The work was first published on or after July 1, 1909 _and_ b) The work was never published prior to 1923 with a copyright notice recognized by the US _and_ c) The work was never published prior to 1923 in the United States and maybe also d) the work had to be in a language other than English.

Just in case anyone thought there were _any_ simple rules about copyright law.

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