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From: will.dockery@gmail.com (W.Dockery)
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Subject: Re: PING George Dance, Kirby Doyle -- Re: PPB: Summer in the South / Paul
 Laurence Dunbar
Date: Fri, 2 May 2025 18:33:36 +0000
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On Fri, 2 May 2025 17:06:14 +0000, George J. Dance wrote:

> On Fri, 2 May 2025 9:04:18 +0000, Will Dockery wrote:
>
>> George J. Dance wrote:
>>
>>> General-Zod wrote:
>>>> George J. Dance wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Faraway Star wrote:
>>>>>> George J. Dance wrote:
>>>>>> > Faraway Star wrote:
>>>>>> > > George J. Dance wrote:
>>>
>>>>>> > > > Today's poem on Penny's Poetry Blog:
>>>>>> > > > Summer in the South, by Paul Laurence Dunbar
>>>
>>>>>> > > > The oriole sings in the greening grove
>>>>>> > > > As if he were half-way waiting,
>>>>>> > > > The rosebuds peep from their hoods of green,
>>>>>> > > > Timid and hesitating.
>>>>>> > > > [...]
>>>>>> > > >
>>>>>> > > >
>>>>>> https://gdancesbetty.blogspot.com/2020/07/summer-in-south-paul-laurence-dunbar.html
>>>
>>>>> > > PING George DANCE....!!
>>>>>> > >
>>>>>> > > Hi GD what about the poetry of Kirby Doyle..?
>>>>>> > >
>>>>>> > > https://pennyspoetry.fandom.com/wiki/Kirby_Doyle?so=search
>>>>>> > >
>>>>>> > > *********** Kirby Doyle (November 27, 1932 - April 5, 2003) was an
>>>>>> American poet and novelist, part of the San Francisco Renaissance of the
>>>>>> 20th century.************
>>>>>> > His work's copyrighted in Canada until 2054 under present law.
>>>>>> Oh Lordy... I see....!
>>>>> No problem. He's out, as I don't think I'll be doing the blog when I'm
>>>>> 100; but feel free to suggest any poets. It's easy enough for me to look
>>>>> up their death dates.
>>>> Again, for the record, the poet has to have been passed away how many
>>>> years for the Copyright in Canada to expire..?
>>>>
>>>> 20, 22 years..?
>>>
>>> 51 years in Canada. Which is "low" by today's standards -- in Britain
>>> and Europe (and for newer works in the US) it's now 71 years, and in
>>> Mexico it's 101 years.
>>
>> Something for the future generations to investigate, then.
>
> Since this was posted, the copyright term in Canada has increased to
> life + 53 years. We're in the process of increasing it to life +70
> years, by extending the term by one year every year - the same way the
> U.S. extended its copyright term in the 1980s and 1990s.

Interesting, thanks for the update.