Out of curiosity, is the 1923 date a fixed in stone (perhaps for 5 or 10
years?) or an 82 years before now date that has been decided on as a suitable
period for the cut off point? In that case, does it move on a year each
year, ie next year 1924 books can be used?
Jacquie
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Out of curiosity, is the 1923 date a fixed in stone (perhaps for 5
or 10
years?) or an 82 years before now date that has been decided on as a
suitable
period for the cut off point? In that case, does it move on a year
each
year, ie next year 1924 books can be used?
No, the 1923 is fixed in
On Sun, 17 Apr 2005 09:53:13 -0700, Adele wrote:
No, the 1923 is fixed in stone. After 1923 you switch to date of the
author's death plus 50 years (in Canada anyway, I don't know if the UK
decided on the same number of years - in the US I think they went for
more)
UK is date of death plus 60
As you all know by now, one of the biggest problems we face on the
Professor's web site is the issue of copyright. It limits us to publication
dates
before 1923, and this cuts out a tremendous amount of information which would
be
useful to us all.
The only way we can overcome this is to
