First edition seems to be American; author American, so WTO renewal does not apply. Now for the renewal check... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_W._Ryder https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1985&dat=19251017&id=1wkvAAAAIBAJ&sjid=8KMFAAAAIBAJ&pg=3499,2911838 Quoting Robin Whittleton <robin@reala.net>:
The Panchatantra is (to quote Wikipedia) "an ancient Indian work of political philosophy, in the form of a collection of interrelated animal fables”. There’s nothing on Gutenberg but I did find this good quality transcription on Wikisource: https://en.m.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Panchatantra_(Purnabhadra%27s_Recension...) (see also archive.org scans: https://archive.org/details/Panchatantra_Arthur_W_Ryder ). While this translation was published in the US in 1925 the wikisource link claims no copyright was renewed on the text. Sure enough, a quick search on the Stanford copyright renewal database doesn’t throw anything up.
Is this something Gutenberg would consider adding? If I wanted to verify lapse of copyright is there a more formal process I could undertake?
Thanks! -Robin