Re: [gutvol-d] Rule 6 Question

On 8/1/05, Michael Hart <hart@pglaf.org> wrote:

BTW, does anyone know about Japanese copyrights from before WWII???

We have a volunteer with some pre-war Japanese materials.

I would usually use the 1923 cutoff.

It'd be Life+50 in Japan, and thus for the US they'd have to die before 1946 and not have renewed their work in the US for a Rule 6 clearance, if I understand correctly. What about foreign nationals who became American citizens? The book I'm looking at is Nabokov's Alice in Wonderland, which he published in 1923 in France, and then he became an American citizen in 1945.