Category:PD-US-no-renewal-unvested

Works in this category were 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 the copyright of works in this category were assigned by the author to another party. That assignee renewed the copyright at the appropriate time, in the assignee's own name, after the death of the author. However, these works are in the public domain in the United States because the renewal copyrights were never vested in the assignees who made the copyright renewal application. The author must be alive at the start of the copyright renewal term for the author's prior assignments to vest. If, however, the author dies before vesting of the renewal copyright, the party to whom the renewal-copyright interest was conveyed loses the entitlement to that interest. Therefore, the copyright of these works are not valid.

These works may be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.