[RESOLVED] Why is the Beast of Averoigne in the PD?

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Timothy Ferguson
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Post by Timothy Ferguson »

I love the Averoigne stories by Clark Ashton Smith, and would like to record them. I see we have one in the collection.

What I can't understand is how its in the PD. It was first published in Weird Tales in May 1933. Wikisource says that volume has a copyright renewal of 1961-1-25 © Blanchard Press, Inc. (R269993).

Does this means its copyright just extended for another 28 years and I can go hunting CAS sources, or is this in the Librivox database in error?
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Post by annise »

We'd have to look but you may be right - we don't trust wikisource particularly either for or against. For post 1922 projects we mainly insist on clearance by PG. The etext link on the entry was http://www.classichorrorstories.com/texts/beast.txt which seems to be dead. Further investigation will be needed.

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I’m no expert, but my understanding is if the copyright was renewed in 1961, the copyright expires 95 years after original publication, which would be 2028.
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Post by annise »

I haven't time at present for a complete hunt , I'm asking for help in checking wikisource is correct - it certainly has not been in other PD cases.
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This has been researched and found to definitely be still under copyright. It has been removed from the LV catalog.
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