reliability of public domain dates

A topic by katherine created Jan 05, 2020 Views: 220 Replies: 3

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Hi everyone -- I have a quick question. If a certain work I'd like to use has varying publication/copyright dates listed (the source linked from Lifehacker has 1924, but the Catalog of Copyright Entries has 1925), should I err on the side of picking something else, and/or putting a pin in the idea for next year?

Thanks!

Randy LubinHost4 years ago

Good question! My sense is that the Catalog is likely be accurate and you should save it for next year. However, if you can find other information that give you confidence that the work was published in 1924, go ahead.

ProsfilaesSubmitted4 years ago

If you're talking about Poirot Investigates, the British version was published in 1924, and the US version, with extra stories, was published in 1925.

katherine4 years ago

Past the deadline, but fortunately not that -- it's a fair bit more obscure, hence my wondering whether it was indeed not in the public domain or whether nobody had gotten around to digitizing it yet.

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Gaming Like It's 1924

reliability of public domain dates