On Fri, 8 Nov 2002, Axel Boldt wrote:
--- Tom Parmenter tompar@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.
IIRC Any work produced in the EEA is protected for authors lifetime +70 years, and this limit applies in the USA as well due to the Uruguay Round GATT (1994).
Imran