Free Encyclopedia of Thelema:Public domain
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Using Public Domain Files at this Site
Some of the files at this site are in the public domain in the United States. This is because they were originally printed in the US and:
- Their copyright has expired normally (they were published in or prior to 1922), or
- They were published between 1923 and 1964 (inclusive) and the copyright was not renewed.
In addition, books printed outside the US in or before 1922 are in the public domain in the US.
Books and other content become public domain in different ways in different countries. So if you reside outside the US, you will have to use different criteria to determine if a text is in the public domain. In some countries, this is determined by the date of death of the author. For instance, in the United Kindom or European Union books become public domain 70 years after the death of the author. This means that some books are in the public domain in the US but not the UK. For instance, the entire first volume of The Equinox was published between 1909 and 1913 in England. This means that it is in the public domain in the US (it was published prior to 1922). However, the author, Aleister Crowley, died in 1947. For this reason these books will not enter the public domain in the UK or the EU until 2018.
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