On Thu, 14 Sep 2006 12:16:06 -0500, "David Starner" <prosfilaes@gmail.com> wrote: |On 9/14/06, Norm Wolcott <nwolcott2ster@gmail.com> wrote: |> |> I believe PG has been clearing books published pre 1923, even if published |> in London. Now I read about another case saying all books pre 1909 may be |> free of copyrigiht. I do not know if this will increase or decrease the pool |> of books. I believe that all books published after 1923 in England are still |> subject to copyright unless they fall into the 75 year death rule. What is |> the status of 1909-1923 books? | |According to the 9th Circuit Court in California, books printed |between 1908 and 1923 outside the US could still be in copyright. |According to just about everyone not heavily partaking of one of that |state's major crops, everything printed before 1923 worldwide is out |of copyright in the US. For the EU the rule is death plus *70* years or in some places death plus *50* years -- Dave Fawthrop <hyphen@hyphenologist.co.uk>