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Re:Mark Twain's two-week stint as a Confederate soldier by NoZebra120vClip on Monday April 17, 2023 @12:59AM (#35597001)
Wikipedia has an interesting paragraph on the circumstances whereby his autobiography will not enter into the Public Domain as scheduled, but later, due to some "gaming the system".
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Re:Mark Twain's two-week stint as a Confederate soldier by bryanrasmussen on Monday April 17, 2023 @01:50AM (#35597226)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_Memoirs_of_U._S._Gran...

searching for gaming, public domain, and copyright all come up empty - do you have more details.

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Re:Mark Twain's two-week stint as a Confederate soldier by lIl-IIIl on Monday April 17, 2023 @03:24AM (#35597710)
I think that comment was about Twain's autobiography, not Grant's:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autobiography_of_Mark_Twain#....

I remember when it first came out, which was surprisingly recently, in 2010.

They published it in secret in 2001 so that it is not considered "unpublished" and doesn't enter public domain in 2003. Although I don't understand how "publishing in secret" is still considering publishing.

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Re:Mark Twain's two-week stint as a Confederate soldier by bryanrasmussen on Monday April 17, 2023 @04:50AM (#35598245)
hmm, well Twain was quite committed to the idea of perpetual copyright, so seems fitting somehow.
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