How can I get Project Gutenberg to clear a non-renewed book?
As of early 2004, you probably can’t. Because of all of the checks we need to do to ensure that the book wasn’t renewed, or wasn’t one of the exceptions that was automatically renewed, we just don’t have the time to do it. But we’re working on it. In April 2004, with the help of hundreds of volunteers at Distributed Proofreaders, we finally posted all Copyright Renewal records for books from 1950 through 1977, and this will be a big help for checking non-renewals in future.
