Talk:You Can't Win (book)

Fair use rationale for Image:YouCan'tWin.jpg

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BetacommandBot (talk) 03:12, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

PD copies on web?

The author apparently died in 1932, which would make this book public domain by now. Is there a linkable copy up anywhere? (I have a PDF, but that's less than an ideal format for all sorts of reasons.) - David Gerard (talk) 11:01, 3 June 2013 (UTC)

Anything published after 1922 is potentially copyright, in the USA. For 1926 it would need to be renewed after X years (30 years?). A quick check of the Stanford Database shows no renewal record. Jack Black died before it came up for renewal, so it may have slipped into the PD, but who knows who owned the Copyright to the book (it was supposedly a best-seller so someone should have been paying attention). Based on the Stanford renewal data it's a good bet that it's PD. -- GreenC 05:11, 16 February 2015 (UTC)

Cover art

The current cover art is from a recent reprint and is Copyright (Fair Use). Since it's likely the book is no longer Copyright (see above) we should be using the cover from an original edition, which is free (PD). Because of this, Fair Use wouldn't apply to the current image since a free version is available. -- GreenC 05:15, 16 February 2015 (UTC)

Can we actually find an original cover in practice not just hypothetically, though? - David Gerard (talk) 23:35, 16 February 2015 (UTC)

Yeah, so I found one immediately. Uploading now - David Gerard (talk) 23:42, 16 February 2015 (UTC)

Assessment comment

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I can't tell what the copyright status of this book is from the article. 1926, you'd think it's in the public domain, but who knows. Lucas gonze (talk) 04:35, 15 July 2009 (UTC)

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