Re: OT: Can a book published in 1908 still be under copyright?

Skrivet en doa Benct Philip Jonsson:
> Can a book published in 1908 still be under copyright, or
> more precisely, can those who have made a recent reprint
> claim copyright, except for any material they may have added?
> FYI the author died in  1939, so by my calculations copyright
> should have expired in 1990.
Depends where you live and where the book was published. Here in France
( and in general in the EU) copyright expires 70 years after the author
death, so you'll have to wait until 2009. Note that if the author is
French and died in active service (and remember last time french
soldiers were killed was 2005) you'll have to wait thirty more years.
Note also that in French law the period of WWII is not taken into
account (so six more years)
The duration of copyright in the United States is also 70 years after
the author's death, but only for works published after 1978. All works
published before 1923 are public domain