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Laying Claim to the Public Domain

We recently bought The Real Mother Goose book for our daughter, who is home from the hospital now and doing fine. I was reading some rhymes from it this evening and happened to turn to the copyright page in the front.

One thing interesting about this page is that there isn’t actually a copyright notice. It says, “This book was originally published in 1916,” which would place it in the public domain in the United States, but then there is also this:

No part of this work may be reproduced in whole or in part, or stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without

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