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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: 0.203s | 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. Rebelgecko ◴[21 Oct 24 20:37 UTC] No.41908292[source]▶
Funnily enough there was a reddit post from around the time the manuscript was discovered (but before it was announced) asking a similar question