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An amateur historian has discovered a long-lost short story by Bram Stoker

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272 points lermontov | 1 comments | 21 Oct 24 16:14 UTC | HN request time: 0.205s | source
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nu11ptr ◴[21 Oct 24 17:09 UTC] No.41906138[source]▶
How would copyright law apply here? Would this fall into the public domain immediately? I read that Irish law is that it would be "70 years from date first made available to the public". Since published in a newspaper, I would assume this would be public domain now. Correct?
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1. papercrane ◴[21 Oct 24 20:33 UTC] No.41908257[source]▶
I _think_ UK copyright law would matter here, since at the time the story was published (1890) the Ireland was part of the UK (Ireland gained independence in 1921.)

If UK copyright applied, then the story would have entered public domain in 1932. The term of copyright for published works at the time as 7 years after the authors death, or 42 years, whichever was longer.