Asking about copyright status on this mailing list will
often only get you speculative, hypothetical answers.

The only way to know for sure if you can consider a particular
item to be ok to use for PG purposes is to submit the TP&V
for copyright clearance.

After reading this discussion I realized that I am inadvertently creating confusion for future people. When I put one of my own books up on Fictionwise for sale, I give the original copyright date and "this edition copyright 2005 by Anne Wingate). But in all but one case, it's not just a new copyright on old material. In all but one case I rewrote quite extensively, and was quite surprised to find that I didn't have to rewrite THE EYE OF ANNA. So I'm going to change that practice at once, and arrange to have all the already-posted books' copyright info changed.

 

Thanks, guys, for the warning. BTW, be aware that T. H. White extensively rewrote THE ONCE AND FUTURE KING at least six times to my knowledge, and all six editions are available in very large libraries. I did a textual analysis of it in grad school and found it extremely confusing.. That probably isn't a world's record for rewriting several long books over and over, but I've never seen one more often rewritten. At one point he actually inserted that idiotic magic combat with Madame Mim from the Disney version.

 

Anne