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John C:
I zoned out on the automatic renewal.  We'd need to know where to hunt for the renewal, but it wouldn't be automatic.

As Jim says, Life+70 is the modern copyright term (everything post-1978), to "harmonize" with the various European-ish laws (that's the current excuse--they call it "policy laundering," forcing a lousy law into somewhere nobody cares about and then using it as leverage on everybody else).  However, that's also retroactive for unpublished works.

If, for example, you buy a lot at auction that includes someone's private correspondence or a draft for a book, you best not distribute it unless the author has been dead for seventy years.

Roygbiv666:
There's an online copy here:

http://ufdc.ufl.edu/UF00077088/00001/1j

University of Florida site.

John C:
True, and it's possible I even knew that, once...

http://www.writeups.org/fiche.php?id=2041

(There's no date, but I haven't contributed to the relevant discussion list in probably close to ten years.)

It's still a shot in the dark as to whether it fits the bill for "published."  I might be willing to make an argument for yes, but with such a small community teenage science fiction fans in 1933 could have accessed, without documentation (like someone who can say they didn't know Siegel or Shuster and had the opportunity to buy a copy), it's only a guess, and one that a clever enough lawyer can still deny successfully.

skybandit:
Anything published in 1932 that doesn't have a copyright notice is public domain.   This doesn't, so it's PD.

John C:
As I said, that may be the case, but only if it was available in such a way that a court would define as "published."  If it wasn't, unpublished works, no matter when you saw them or heard of them, have copyrights either from when they were first acceptably published or Life+70 if not otherwise.

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