Wikisource:Requested texts/Archives/2009

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Fulfilled requests

• Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985. I put a summary there, but it requres the actual text
  • A source containing the entire text is now linked on its Talk Page.
• Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974. I found only a little part of it and so it's greatly incomplete.
  • The entire Act is linked on its Talk Page for you.
• w:Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum by w:Bede, in modern English! (apparently being worked on at Ecclesiastical History of the English People)
  • completed
• The Peloponnesian War by w:Thucydidies. Public domain tanslation can be found here: [1]. Used extensively as reference for w:Pericles article which is currently going through featured article nomination.
  • Completed as History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides
• Index:The History of the American Indians.djvu
• Index:Handbook for Boys.djvu
• Index:Great Neapolitan Earthquake of 1857.djvu
• Index:Journal of a Voyage to Greenland, in the Year 1821.djvu
• Index:Poems By Chauncy Hare Townshend.djvu
• Index:A Beacon to the Society of Friends.djvu
• Index:Delineation of Roman Catholicism.djvu

Copyrighted and restricted by copyright holder

• Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening by Robert Frost, Copyrighted in the United States until 2033

I do not believe this is correct. The first publication of the poem was in the March 7, 1923 issue of The New Republic. Later that year, Frost included it in a book of poems he published. Under the copyright law in effect in 1951, a copyright expired on the 28th anniversary of its date of first publication, unless the copyright was renewed within one year prior to the expiration of the original term of copyright. Frost did not renew the copyright of the poem by March 1951, instead renewing the copyright of the book published later in 1923 that contained the poem, by which time the poem itself had entered the public domain. (Not until the Copyright Act of 1976 did all copyright terms expire at the end of the calendar year.) Even if Frost had renewed the copyright in a timely manner, it would expire in 2018 (95 years after first publication), not 2033, seventy years after Frost's death. Life + 70 is only for works first published since 1978. — Walloon (talk) 01:59, 3 March 2009 (UTC)

• Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes (Copyright 1943; copyright renewed, 1971: Renewal #RE513112)

Works in the public domain in source countries but copyrighted in the USA

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• Author:Mark Twain:

  Letters from the Earth, copyright 1962, renewed 1990 (R511344).