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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;2manybooks, post: 447814, member: 8267&quot;]Um, no. </p><p><br /></p><p>2MB&#039;s partner here, a bookseller. Earliest copyright protection in the US, from 1790 on, provided 14 years&#039; protection, which could be renewed if the author was still alive, for another 14. In 1904, the Copyright Act of 1831 was in effect, so Baum and his publishers would have had 28 years, renewable for another 14 after that. The copyright Act of 1909 extended the renewal term to 28 years, too; and subsequent acts have expanded the period of protection, though by now all authorized publications prior to 1923 are in the public domain and freely reproducable. </p><p><br /></p><p>Publishers COULD, however, authorize reprints, and publishing companies did change hands and partnerships, so you&#039;ll see Oz titles before 1917 published by Reilly &amp; Britton, after 1917 by Reilly &amp; Lee. Bobbs-Merrill held the right to the original Wizard of Oz, but not the sequels, and authorized reprints by Dononue. </p><p><br /></p><p>It IS all quite confusing, and there are many states of most titles, with different numbers of color plates, if any, different cover art, and few of them with any indication of the actual printing date. The essential bibliography, with detailed descriptions of all known versions and approximate dates, is Bibliographia Oziana, by Hanff &amp; Greene, et al., now conveniently available in a reprint from Oak Knoll - you used to have to be a member of the Oz club to get copies.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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