[posted] Re: Posted (#26659, Wallace) !

[John Mark Ockerbloom]

Just trying to tie up some loose ends:

Simon Tarlink wrote:
> Sorry to "butt in"--if it appears that pre-1923 cannot be established, and
> the book needs
> to be pulled from PG-INT, why not consider moving it to PGC. I checked
> Wallace, and he clearly died before 1958, so there'd be no copyright problem
> in Canada.

I'm currently linking to a copy at Freeread Australia that's linked to
from Gutenberg Australia.  My link goes through a warning page, since
I've not yet seen evidence that satisfies me that it's public domain
here in the US.

If anyone does demonstrate its public domain status here in the US,
let me know.  (I see that #26659 is still on the Gutenberg site, so
maybe someone did and I didn't hear about it.  For now, I don't
link to this copy, but would be happy to if it were shown to be PD here.)

Thanks!

   John





> 
> Simple Simon
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: posted-bounces at lists.pglaf.org
> [mailto:posted-bounces at lists.pglaf.org]On Behalf Of Greg Newby
> Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2009 3:01 PM
> To: Project Gutenberg Postings Announcements; alexander1953 at msn.com
> Subject: Re: [posted] Posted (#26659, Wallace) !
> 
> 
> On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 06:55:50AM -0500, John Mark Ockerbloom wrote:
>> Does this one actually clear copyright?  The earliest
>> copy I can find of this one is a London edition from 1929.
>> This copy doesn't have a date on it, but the earliest American
>> edition I can find with a date is dated 1930.
>>
>> Wallace was British, and lived until 1932, so I believe
>> his works would still have been under copyright in 1996,
>> when the GATT copyright restorations went into effect.
> 
> Good question.  My clearance data (key 20071017073446wallace,
> for internal reference) said 1920, but the page images
> don't actually have a date.
> 
> I'm cc'ing Alexander, to see what further detail exists.
> 
> I'm also attaching the page images, for your review:
>   "The Country Life Press, Garden City N.Y."
> 
> Note that the book doesn't indicate a non-US publication, so we could
> have cleared under either rule 5 (no copyright notice) or rule 1
> (pre-1923, if that is supported).  In the case where GATT might apply,
> we can and sometimes do miss such things when there is no indication of
> a non-US publication.
> 
> Based on your research about non-US origination, if we can't support the
> pre-1923 publication date, we'll need to pull it.
>   -- Greg
> 
>> It's possible that the book was pulished in the US within the
>> 30 day window necessary to avoid copyright restoration, but I
>> haven't seen any evidence yet for this.  If PG does have more
>> evidence that the book is now in the public domain, please
>> let me know.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>>   John
>>
>>
>> Al Haines wrote:
>>> The Black, by Edgar Wallace
>>> 26659
>>>  [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/6/6/5/26659 ]
>>>  [Files: 26659.txt; 26659-8.txt; 26659-h.htm]
>>>
>>> Thanks to D Alexander and the Online Distributed
>>> Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was
>>> produced from images generously made available by The
>>> Internet Archive)
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Al
>>>
>>>
>