English:
Cover of the pulp magazine
Weird Tales
(May 1953, volume 45, number 2) featuring "Whisper Water" by Leah Bodine Drake. Cover art by Joseph Eberle.
This work is in the
public domain
because it was published in the United States between 1929 and 1963, and although there may or may not have been a copyright notice, the
copyright was not renewed
. For further explanation, see
Commons:Hirtle chart
and
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. Note that it may still be copyrighted in jurisdictions that do not apply the
rule of the shorter term
for US works (depending on the date of the author's death), such as Canada (70 years
p.m.a.
), Mainland China (50 years p.m.a., not Hong Kong or Macao), Germany (70 years p.m.a.), Mexico (100 years p.m.a.), Switzerland (70 years p.m.a.), and other countries with individual treaties.
Works copyrighted before 1964 had to have the copyright renewed sometime in the 28th year. If the copyright was not renewed the work is in the public domain. No record of copyright renewal for this magazine found in the Catalog of Copyright Entries. Copyright renewal records for 1950 onwards can be found via the
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