"Eric Bustad" wrote in message
...

Believe me, copyright in a book exists for seventy years after the death
of
the author (in Britain and the E.U.). I've had dealings with enough
estates
to be absolutely dead certain of this fact :-)

How about a non-fiction book?

The same goes for non-fiction as for fiction: seventy years after the death
of the author. If you create something - stories, novels, music, articles,
reference books, paintings, cartoons, whatever - copyright in the U.K. and
E.U. is death plus seventy.

Barbara