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According to the passages, Emma Goldman's *Living My Life* entered the public domain in the United States because it was legally published in the U.S. before 1964, and its copyright was not renewed [1]. The work was published in 1931 by Alfred A. Knopf in New York [2]. For works published between 1923 and 1963, copyright could be renewed between January 1st of the 27th year after publication and December 31st of the 28th year; if not renewed, the work entered the public domain on January 1st of the 29th year [1]. Since the copyright was not renewed, the book is now in the public domain [1].
Practically, this means the work is free for anyone to use in the United States without seeking permission or paying royalties [1]. The passages note that this public domain status may not apply in countries with longer copyright terms that apply the "rule of the shorter term" to foreign works [1][4]. The passages also emphasize that users must confirm there is no evidence of a copyright renewal before using the work, as failure to do so could result in deletion for copyright violation [4].
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← Living My Life ( 1931 ) by Emma Goldman → related portals : Anarchism 3161775 Living My Life 1931 Emma Goldman Volume 1 Volume 2 This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was legally published within the United States (or the United Nations Headquarters in New York subject to Section 7 of the United States Headquarters Agreement ) before 1964, and copyright was not renewed. For Class A renewal records ( books only) published between 1923 and 1963, check the Stanford University Copyright Renewal Database . For other renewal records of publications between 1922–1950,…
← Living My Life by Emma Goldman Volume 2 → New York: Alfred A Knopf Inc., 1931. 3161772 Living My Life Emma Goldman IN APPRECIATION S uggestions that I write my memoirs came to me when I had barely begun to live, and continued all through the years. But I never paid heed to the proposal. I was living my life intensely -- what need to write about it? Another reason for my reluctance was the conviction I entertained that one should write about one's life only when one had ceased to stand in the very torrent of it. "When one has reached a good philosophic age," I used to tell my friends,…
it, stayed long or little, and passed out. Their love, as well as their hate, has gone into making my life worth while. Living My Life is my tribute and my gratitude to them all. EMMA GOLDMAN Saint-Tropez, France January 1931 Volume one Chapter 1 I T WAS THE 15TH OF AUGUST 1889, THE DAY OF MY ARRIVAL IN New York City. I was twenty years old. All that had happened in my life until that time was now left behind me, cast off like a worn-out garment. A new world was before me, strange and terrifying. But I had youth, good health, and a passionate ideal. Whatever the new held in store for me I was…
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was Peggy Guggenheim. Other friends and comrades followed suit, giving without stint from their limited economic means. Miriam Lerner, a young American friend, volunteered to take Demi's place when the latter had to leave for England. Dorothy Marsh, Betty Markow, and Emmy Eckstein typed part of my manuscript as a labor of love. Arthur Leonard Ross, kindest and most lavish of men, gave me his untiring efforts as legal representative and adviser. How could such friendship ever be rewarded? And Sasha? Many misgivings beset me when we began the revision of my manuscript. I feared he might resent…
More questions about this book
- Trace Emma Goldman's initial resistance to writing her memoirs, articulating her philosophical reasons for waiting. What specific experiences or realizations ultimately prompted her to abandon this philosophy and begin her autobiography?
- Critique Emma Goldman's concept of a "philosophic age" as the ideal time to write an autobiography. What are the potential advantages of such detachment, and what might be the inherent limitations or costs of waiting until one has "ceased to stand in the very torrent" of life?
- How did "enforced European inactivity," initially perceived as a hardship, paradoxically become a catalyst for Emma Goldman's decision to write her autobiography? What does this suggest about the relationship between external circumstances, leisure, and creative output?
- Emma Goldman states, "old age, far from ripening wisdom and mellowness, is too often fraught with senility, narrowness, and petty rancor." How did this observation, seemingly a pessimistic one, become a *driving force* for her to write, and what does it imply about the nature of wisdom and self-preservation?