[PW] ? RAL Fell

[Dennis Lien]

At 07:23 AM 4/14/2007, you wrote:

>RAL Fell was the author of Etruria and Rome
>(Cambridge, 1924), an important work on the
>Etruscan civilization, and co-author with Thomas
>Ashby of a widely cited paper, The Via Flaminia
>(JRS 11:125-190, 1921). It is this paper I wish
>to reproduce on my website if it is in the public
>domain, i.e., if he died before 1937, whence my
>question.


Since your email address indicates U of Chicago, I
assume you're talking about public domain *in the US*
here.  Since the article you want to reproduce was
published in 1921, surely it (like essentially
everything copyright previous to 1923) IS in public
domain in the US, regardless of the irrelevancy of
the author's date of death?

Insert usual "I am not a lawyer and do not profuse to
be giving legal advice" disclaimer, but still...

See

http://www.unc.edu/~unclng/public-d.htm

http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books/renewals.html


and scads of other sites.


Dennis Lien / U of Minnesota Libraries // d-lien at umn.edu