lurcherlover wrote: ↑April 23rd, 2020, 10:00 am... must have died by or before 1949... (I think I'm right about this but please say if I'm not).
When talking of time/years, "by" and "before" mean the same thing, I thought. You probably wanted to say "in or before". English is not my mother tongue...
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reality prompts me to scale down my reading, sorry to say to PLers: do correct my pronunciation please
lurcherlover wrote: ↑April 23rd, 2020, 10:00 am
If you are recording in the UK an author must have died by or before 1949 (i.e. to have been dead for 70+ years) and the work must have been published by or before 1924. (I think I'm right about this but please say if I'm not).
as I just posted in another thread that isn't quite right. It's a bit like racehorses all having their birthday on the same day , copyrights all expire on the first of January the following year. So in the UK copyright lasts 70 years after the author died, so if they died in 1949 then 1949+ 70 is 2019 so it expired 1/1/1920.
When talking of time/years, "by" and "before" mean the same thing, I thought. You probably wanted to say "in or before".
English is not my mother tongue...