A lot of that art may not have been registered or renewed, and already be in the public domain. 80% of the books published between 1924 and 1963 are in the public domain on this basis!

https://www.crummy.com/2019/07/22/0

Among those works that are #SecretlyPublicDomain? #HPLovecraft's *Call of #Cthulhu*, which has been public domain since *1956* (the Lovecraft estate is another one of those bullying monsters who will be put out of business soon, thanks to the reawakened public domain).

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