Issues for Literary Translators
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The Copyright & Fair Use site of Stanford University Libraries is a rich resource on the broad spectrum of copyright issues.
The online Copyright Crash Course (University of Texas at Austin) is another good place for both beginners and puzzled experts to turn.
Need to know whether a given work still under copyright in the United States? The most detailed (and reliable) guide to copyright duration is that of Peter B. Hirtle (Cornell University). This chart is complicated because the law of copyright duration is a thicket of rules and exceptions.
A shorter guide to copyright duration was prepared by Laura Gasaway (University of North Carolina). This wonderfully clear, helpful chart is a good place to start, partly because it does not attempt to address or explain every possible timing issue in U.S. copyright law. Gasaway's chart can be used in combination with Hirtle's to good effect.