Dr. Dolittle in the Moon [ADOPTED]

ShellyW · Post by **ShellyW** » April 12th, 2024, 3:42 pm

I'm interested in doing this book as a solo: https://www.fadedpage.com/showbook.php?pid=20220152

It's Dr. Dolittle in the Moon published in 1928. Can I go ahead?

Post by **TriciaG** » April 12th, 2024, 4:18 pm

It looks to me like that text source is okay. While it has the 1956 copyright date on it, that's the 28th-year renewal of the original. So yes, this appears to be PD.

ShellyW · Post by **ShellyW** » April 12th, 2024, 4:34 pm

TriciaG wrote: ↑April 12th, 2024, 4:18 pm It looks to me like that text source is okay. While it has the 1956 copyright date on it, that's the 28th-year renewal of the original. So yes, this appears to be PD.

OK Thanks. I wasn't able to find that information on the 1956 edition. How did you do that?

Post by **TriciaG** » April 12th, 2024, 4:45 pm

1) Experience, knowing that works published in 1923 and later (for a while) had to be copyright-renewed 28 years after publication, or else they fell into the public domain. And math: 1928+28=1956.

2) I did look up the copyright renewal here: https://exhibits.stanford.edu/copyrightrenewals/catalog?exhibit_id=copyrightrenewals&search_field=search&q=Dolittle+in+the+moon and it was renewed by the wife in 1956.

gweeks · Post by **gweeks** » April 16th, 2024, 6:17 am

I asked Al Haines to see about posting this to PG-US. He was the PM for it at DPC.

Greg

Post by **TriciaG** » April 16th, 2024, 6:25 am

Thanks, Greg!

This has been adopted: viewtopic.php?p=2318372#p2318372

gweeks · Post by **gweeks** » April 17th, 2024, 12:15 pm

gweeks wrote: ↑April 16th, 2024, 6:17 am I asked Al Haines to see about posting this to PG-US. He was the PM for it at DPC.

This has cleared and been posted to PG-US. This is just the fadedpage copy. No actual changes. It should show up in the PG catalog shortly.

Greg