[pd-discuss] Public Domain Calculator - James Bond books

Wed Dec 21 17:30:01 UTC 2011

Hi Christina

Thanks so much for this response, it's cleared things up for me. I
think where it all went wrong for me was not in the question I
initially highlighted, but in this one:

On 21 December 2011 16:16, Angelopoulos, C.J. <C.J.Angelopoulos at uva.nl> wrote:

> “Was the work first published at the latest 70 years after the death of the last surviving author?”
>
> Yes.

I had trouble parsing this one, and answered "no", not yes. Here was
my logic - Ian Fleming was still alive when the work was first
published, so "no" felt like the right answer to this question. I
guess I parsed it like this "Was the work first published after the
death of the last surviving author, if so, how long after the author's
death (</>70years)?".

I now see that from the point of view of this question "at the latest
70 years after the death..." includes all the time the author was
alive as well.

I'm very glad to hear this information is useful, thanks again for
your excellent project

Warm wishes

Becky