What is the copyright status of a book published in England post 1923 (say 1925) and 2 years later in the US. The US copyright was not renewed. a. No US copyright b. 75 years from author's death c. 2019 nwolcott2@post.harvard.edu
On Fri, 29 Sep 2006, Norm Wolcott wrote:
What is the copyright status of a book published in England post 1923 (say 1925) and 2 years later in the US. The US copyright was not renewed.
a. No US copyright b. 75 years from author's death c. 2019
Was the book still under copyright in England in 1996? -- Greg Weeks http://durendal.org:8080/greg/
Choice (b) was meant to take care of that. Say the author died in 1955.. I ask this because the works of Lewis Spence (d. 1955) published in the late 1920's, whose US copyrights expired, have been reprinted recently by Dover, and were also reprinted in the US in the 1960's shortly after the expiration of the US copyright. The 1960 reprint carried a copyright notice but did not mention the prior English publication nor the US publication, so the copyright may have applied only to the "new" material. If the works were PD in the US in the 1960's, perhaps their re-publication then created a pd US version? nwolcott2@post.harvard.edu ----- Original Message ----- From: "Greg Weeks" <greg@durendal.org> To: "Project Gutenberg Volunteer Discussion" <gutvol-d@lists.pglaf.org> Sent: Friday, September 29, 2006 10:37 AM Subject: Re: [gutvol-d] More copyright
On Fri, 29 Sep 2006, Norm Wolcott wrote:
What is the copyright status of a book published in England post 1923 (say 1925) and 2 years later in the US. The US copyright was not renewed.
a. No US copyright b. 75 years from author's death c. 2019
Was the book still under copyright in England in 1996?
-- Greg Weeks http://durendal.org:8080/greg/
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On Sat, 30 Sep 2006, Norm Wolcott wrote:
Choice (b) was meant to take care of that. Say the author died in 1955..
I ask this because the works of Lewis Spence (d. 1955) published in the late 1920's, whose US copyrights expired, have been reprinted recently by Dover, and were also reprinted in the US in the 1960's shortly after the expiration of the US copyright. The 1960 reprint carried a copyright notice but did not mention the prior English publication nor the US publication, so the copyright may have applied only to the "new" material. If the works were PD in the US in the 1960's, perhaps their re-publication then created a pd US version?
I asked about 1996 specifically because that is when URAA/GATT brought a number of non-US works back under copyright in the US. There were a number of works published prior to 1996 as legitimate public domain and that are not after 1996. I won't claim to fully understand the rules, but one of the requirements was that the work still be under copyright in 1996 in the home country for GATT to apply. http://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ38b.pdf -- Greg Weeks http://durendal.org:8080/greg/
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