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Message: <blockquote data-quote="teitan" data-source="post: 135680" data-attributes="member: 3457">PD>Anything before 1923 is in the public domain, to the best of my >knowledge. I'm not a lawyer, however. This is not necessarily true actually. Some situations can cause this to change or provide special rules as to possible publishing etc. As an example I can use the literary writings of Aleister Crowley. There is a general opinion within Crowleyan circles that that his work is in public domain, but a court in England recently awarded the rights to a continuance of his magickal order, the O.T.O. What is public domain in regards to ALeister Crowley, well, many say the whole of his occult periodical is Public Domain, but that is not true either, just certain parts, mostly before 1912, and even then some of it is still retained by the estate. It is a case by case basis and copyright laws are more confusing than women. The law is 75 years after the authors death the work is released into the public domain, though exact typesettings are copyright to the person who typed it or the company that published it. Same goes for any editorial changes etc.Jason</blockquote>