Well if the print edition has significant changes, and the copyright
dates are murky, I would say no, we can't use it as a source unfortunately.
On 10/11/25 12:21 PM, Lukas Bystricky wrote:
> An update on this. I received the book /Early Stories /from the library
> (see thread here <
https://groups.google.com/g/standardebooks/c/
> m1bbFWpehuA/m/562iqiCqAQAJ>).
>
> The text for "And Now to God the Father" does not exactly match
> partially obscured scans I found <
https://archive.org/details/the-
> bystander/1920-1929/1929/
> The%20Bystander%20%231326v102%20(1929-05-15)%20(BNA)/page/368/mode/2up>.
> The only changes seem to be additional paragraphs that don't appear in
> the scans. It's unclear if Du Maurier added these later, of if they were
> cut for the journal printing. In any case there is enough information to
> fill in the obscured text. Is it ok to do so?
>
> The book has the following publication information (excuse the poor
> photo quality):
> 1000012662.jpeg
>
> 1000012664.jpg
>
> Unfortunately even though it says that the stories were all written
> between 1927 and 1930 and gives copyright years 1927, 1928, 1929 and
> 1930, it also gives 1954, 1955 and 1959, and it doesn't connect stories
> to copyright dates. I guess this makes it inadmissible as a
> transcription source?
>
>
> On Wednesday, October 1, 2025 at 5:14:44 AM UTC+2
ant...@roadrunner.page
> wrote:
>
> The month of publication doesn’t matter. These works receive their
> copyright from 17 U.S.C. section 304, and section 305 states:
>
> “All terms of copyright provided by sections 302 through 304 run to
> the end of the calendar year in which they would otherwise expire.”
>
>
> On September 30, 2025 11:23:55 AM MDT, Alex Cabal
> <
al...@standardebooks.org> wrote:
>
> OK, Weijia will manage this with Robin reviewing.
>
> I think technically it's OK to include work based on month, but
> for consistency we should just stick with year calculations.
>
> On 9/30/25 11:53 AM, Lukas Bystricky wrote:
>
> I'd like to start a short story compilation of Du Maurier
> stories (see spreadsheet <
https://docs.google.com/
> spreadsheets/ <
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/>
> d/1fjsN_XWap97TwESdl20QtEusFZprhPqOGA9WEot2a8o/edit?
> gid=0#gid=0>). I've found scans for most of her early
> stories and they're not too long so it shouldn't be too much
> trouble to transcribe.
>
> Here's the GitHub repo <
https://github.com/lukasbystricky/
> daphne-du- <
https://github.com/lukasbystricky/daphne-du->
> maurier_short-fiction>.
>
> I have a basic question about copyright. As I understand it,
> copyright expires 95 years after publication. I know for
> books we only consider the year the book was published,
> which makes sense because the copyright is usually only
> given as a year. So until January 1st we can only work on
> books published before 1930, regardless of when during the
> year 1930 they first came out. Does the same rule apply to
> magazines, where we have a more exact publication date? For
> example Du Maurier has a few stories published in early
> 1930–more than 95 years ago. Could I include those already?
> I'm guessing the answer is no, but just thought I'd check.
>
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