[posted] UNPosted (#26659, Wallace) !

[Greg Newby]

On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 11:42:12AM -0400, John Mark Ockerbloom wrote:
> 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.

Thanks for following up, John.  I checked earlier, and found the
same thing you did...and having heard no further evidence,
removed 26659 from the collection.

The WW'ers can recycle that # for a future eBook.

  -- Greg

> 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
>>>>
>>>>