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UK copyright status

This work is clearly too simple for copyright protection in the US, consisting only of simple text and a non-creative background. The UK threshold of originality, however, is very low. Based on c:Commons:Deletion requests/Two British logos, this work is likely copyrightable. It is more difficult to determine if the work has fallen into the public domain though. If we use the death date of the book author, copyright wouldn't expire until 2030 (70 years pma). However, authors are not typically the ones designing book covers, that usually falls to the publisher. If the cover designer is truly unknown, copyright would have expired in 2017 (70 years since publication). If the cover designer is not anonymous, but their death date is unknown, we would have to wait until 2094 (120 years since publication) to be sure that it's public domain. Without being able to see any in-publication cataloging and copyright information, we have to assume that it's non-free in the UK. --AntiCompositeNumber (talk) 17:34, 28 April 2020 (UTC)