Posted by John Wilson on September 18, 2005 at 15:23:28 from 202.154.157.202 user hugo.
In Reply to: Re: Stolen from the Lakeland CAM posted by John Nichols on September 17, 2005 at 21:09:25:
In America, as the Project Gutenberg website points out, books published before 1923 are now out of copyright there. They were originally copyright there for 75 years from date of publication, ie before 1923 the copyright period was from publication not the author’s death. Then it was 95 years from publication (so 1923 books are still in copyright).
This will include Wodehouse’s school books published 1902-1909: The Pothunters, A Prefect’s Uncle, Tales of St Austin’s, The Gold Bat, The Head of Kay’s, The White Feather, Mike (the list on the main Wodehouse page does not include all of these).
But Project Gutenberg seems to include some of his post-1923 books which his heirs have presumably released from copyright. Eg “Right Ho Jeeves” (1934).