Many of Emily Dickinson‘s poems remain under copyright more than 130 years after she died. With some of her manuscripts held by her sister, and others by her brother’s mistress, both camps filtered what they were willing to publish and how it would be presented. In 1929, Further Poems revealed more than 150 verses Emily’s late sister had withheld from print. Many are poems of love, some mystical, some perhaps more earthly. They greet the public domain in 37 days. #PublicDomainDayCountdown
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@everybodyslibraries.com "… remain under copyright more than 130 years after she died." <—- How is that possible?!
@mike @everybodyslibraries.com For a long time, US copyright law treated unpublished materials as effectively having a perpetual copyright until they were published. So the copyright term for _Further Poems_ starts in 1929, and since it was renewed, it gets a 95-year term starting the year it was published. That term ends at the end of this year.
The law's changed since, but the old rules still apply to works that were published when this book was.
@JMarkOckerbloom @everybodyslibraries.com Ugh, with each passing day, I become less and less sympathetic with how copyright works. I long ago passed the point where I think no copyright at all would be better than what we have now.