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. 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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