not checked the dates for copyright but maybe the madly chaotic end of the world is making people think of his books. Or someone has just reached the letter L in their archive.

unable to remember what the current copyright expiry rules are.

in differs from country to country anyway! On music recordings, stuff up to & including 1962 went out of copyright before the-powers-that-be passed an emergency law change to stick yet another 10 years onto things.

It should be 75 years, so possibly. I wish we could go back and revise the law. It was only extended because not many people were online yet and Disney knew they could sneak a change in. It should still be 50.

Yeah, the terms are far too long... Especially since most of them are, "life plus an amount that's too long."

someone said that H.P. Lovecraft fell out of copyright "long ago