Gareth Owen wrote:
Thanks a lot. He died in 1925, so if I understand
http://www.loc.gov/copyright/circs/circ1.html#hlc correctly, the very latest
it would be in copyright is last year, so they're fair game. Correct?
It seems hard to say, based on my reading of this thing.
It seems that "Public Law 105-298, enacted on October 27, 1998, further extended the
renewal term of copyrights still subsisting on that date by an additional 20 years,
providing for a renewal term of 67 years and a total term of protection of 95
years."
So if it was published in 1908, then it seems that if the renewals were done timely,
there could be copyright protection until 2003.
Or would that be... 95 years past his *death*?
I dunno. You should ask the Project Gutenberg people -- they work on this copyright
stuff all the time.
http://promo.net/pg/subs.html
and subscribe to 'gutvol-d'. There are some good people on there (I used to
subscribe) who seem to know all about this stuff.
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