Thanks for the correction. That's what I get for typing too fast and not looking things up. I was not sure if life+70 had been made completely retroactive in England, but from what I've just read, it looks as if it has... Andrew On Thu, 14 Sep 2006, Jon Ingram wrote:
On 9/14/06, Andrew Sly <sly@victoria.tc.ca> wrote:
In the UK, I can't pretend to know the laws in much detail. I would say it's pretty certain that 1909-1923 books would fall under a life+x term, although whether it would be life+50 or life+75, I couldn't say.
The UK law is life+70, for books both before and after 1909. Note though that it's quite possible for a book to be in copyright in one country, and out of copyright in another, so if you're in the US you don't need to worry about this. There are still probably quite a few books written in the 19th century which are still copy-restricted in the UK.