At 2:37 PM -0400 9/4/05, David W. Fenton wrote:
I don't see the other reprint houses as being at all on the same level -- they add nothing, and reprint without permission, as long as it's not copyrighted in the US.
You may be quite right about Dover. I included them because they are, in fact, a reprint house, and not all their publications claim new copyrights. But I don't quite understand your last comment. Anything not covered by copyright in the U.S. is, by definition, in the public domain IN THE U.S. No permission is required and no financial arrangements are required to reprint it IN THE U.S. It cannot be sold in countries in which it is still under copyright, of course, but publishers do that all the time.
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