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Subject: Despair (1937) and the public domain
Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2012 00:27:34 -0700
From: zero <cestlaguerre@gmail.com>
To: Nabokv-L <nabokv-l@utk.edu>


Does anyone know the copyright status of the 1937 British edition of Despair? My understanding, based almost entirely on half-understood misapprehensions and ignorance, is that the copyright of the majority of VN's Russian works were in effect "reset" by the act of translation; so the late-1950s through early-1970s translations are essentially treated as new works and their copyright status reflects this; however, the 1937 edition of Despair *should be*, based on my layperson's understanding, have entered the public domain along with the British translation of Camera Obscura--can anyone comment on this, or offer any insights on how a curious reader can go about reading these rare bits of Nabopocrypha?

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michael

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