[B-Greek] Question about Abbott-Smith

Jonathan Robie jwrobie at mindspring.com
Thu Jan 31 18:59:40 EST 2008


For those of you following from home, here's a good guide to the rules 
for copyrights on such works:

http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Copyright_How-To

Jonathan

Carl W. Conrad wrote:
> Ulrik's original message was lost because it was formatted in MIME  
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>> From: Ulrik Sandborg-Petersen <ulrikp at hum.aau.dk>
>> Date: January 31, 2008 4:20:23 PM EST
>> To: James Spinti <JSpinti at Eisenbrauns.com>
>> Cc: B-greek list <b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org>
>> Subject: Re: [B-Greek] Question about Abbott-Smith
>>
>>
>> James,
>>
>> That is the third edition you are talking about.  The first edition  
>> was published in 1922, in North America by Charles Scribner's Sons,  
>> and in Europe by T. & T. Clark.  That means, the first edition is  
>> out of copyright in the USA (because it was published in the USA  
>> before 1923), but in Europe, it may or may not be out of copyright,  
>> depending on when Dr. Abbott-Smith died.  Right now, European  
>> copyright laws dictate that the expiry date on copyright for  
>> literary works (of which the Abbott-Smith lexicon is a specimen) is  
>> year of author's death, plus 70 years.  So we have a situation  
>> whereby the first edition is in the Public Domain in the USA, but is  
>> probably still copyrighted in Europe.
>>     




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