I'm being dead serious. What would you rather do: look up the publication dates for 1001 books and the death dates of the author(s) for a large subset thereof? look up just the death dates for < 1001 authors? There are more books than authors. Just by confirming the death dates for CS Lewis, Charles Dickens, Hans Christian Anderson, Verdi, etc., gives me the public domain date for multiple books at a go. The US law is messy. The fact that it's nice and clean for pre-1923 imprints doesn't unmessy it. It's a goddamn mess. ----- Original Message -----
From "Joshua Hutchinson" <joshua@hutchinson.net> Date Tue, 11 Jan 2005 15:53:17 -0500 To "Project Gutenberg Volunteer Discussion" <gutvol-d@lists.pglaf.org> Subject re: [gutvol-d] Top 1000 collection list and suggestion
Are you being serious? The US law is anything but messy. Instead of trying to find out exactly when the author died (and that can be harder than it sounds for obscure authors) or even more fun, all the editors, illustrators and contributors to a composite work, find out when they ALL died, take the one that died last .... With the US law, you just take the printed publication date and add 95 years. It is a ridiculously long copyright term, true, but it is very easy to determine. Josh Today's Topics: 1. re: Top 1000 collection list and suggestion (Wallace J.McLean) 2. re: Top 1000 collection list and suggestion (Joshua Hutchinson) 3. re: Top 1000 collection list and suggestion (D. Starner) 4. Re: Re: Problem in file retrieval (Philip Baker) 5. Canadian and American copyrights (Andrew Sly) 6. Re: Canadian and American copyrights (Robert Shimmin) _______________________________________________ gutvol-d mailing list gutvol-d@lists.pglaf.org http://lists.pglaf.org/listinfo.cgi/gutvol-d