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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Figtree3, post: 1751171, member: 33&quot;]The law about a work being copyrighted until 70 years after the author&#039;s death only applies to works originally published from 1978 to the present. </p><p><br /></p><p>The U.S. Copyright office has issued a nice brochure/circular to explain some of the complexities of copyright for works published before that date. Here&#039;s a link to a PDF version that I hope will open from here: <a href="https://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ15a.pdf" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ15a.pdf" rel="nofollow">https://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ15a.pdf</a></p><p><br /></p><p>This guide from Stanford University Library is more succinct in explaining it:</p><p><a href="https://fairuse.stanford.edu/overview/faqs/copyright-basics/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://fairuse.stanford.edu/overview/faqs/copyright-basics/" rel="nofollow">https://fairuse.stanford.edu/overview/faqs/copyright-basics/</a></p><p><b>Scroll down to How long does a copyright last?</b>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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