The Unreconstructed M by Philip K. Dick is PUBLIC DOMAIN.

It’s public domain status was not previously known because the copyright was thought to have been renewed. But it wasn’t.

The confusion stems from this document:

You will note that the renewal form shows The Unreconstructed M as having been published in a magazine called Other Worlds, November 1956.

That is completely false.

Here is the table of contents for the November 1956 issue of Other Worlds:

The Unreconstructed M was actually published in the January 1957 issue of Science Fiction Stories (aka Original Science Fiction Stories).

Here is the table of contents from that issue:

Here is a |PDF| made from it’s publication in Science Fiction Stories.

The Unreconstructed M by Philip K. Dick is PUBLIC DOMAIN.

Posted by Jesse Willis

Strange Eden by Philip K. Dick is PUBLIC DOMAIN.

Its copyright was not renewed within the specified period. This was not generally known previously due to a falsification of the original publication on a 1983 copyright office renewal form (RE190631). The story was first published in the December 1954 issue of Imagination. But the copyright renewal form suggests it was published in the December 1955 issue of Imagination.

It was not.

Here is the evidence:

The table of contents for Imagination, December 1954 (as you can see it includes Strange Eden by Philip K. Dick):

Here is a scanned photocopy of the renewal form:

Here is the table of contents for Imagination, December 1955 – the issue that the renewal form states that Strange Eden was published in. Note that it does not contain Strange Eden:

Strange Eden by Philip K. Dick is PUBLIC DOMAIN.

I’ve made a |PDF| from it’s publication in Imagination, December 1954.

Posted by Jesse Willis