Questions center on who exactly owns or owned the copyrights, and whether the copyrights for the majority of Lovecraft's works published post-1927 - including such prominent pieces as " The Call of Cthulhu" and " At the Mountains of Madness" - were renewed as required. It is unclear whether any of Lovecraft's fictional work meets both criteria. Works published after 1927 and before 1964, which would include all the remainder of Lovecraft's fiction, may still be in copyright if they were originally published with a copyright notice, and if that copyright was renewed by the copyright holder after 28 years. This category includes many well-known Lovecraft stories, including " The Rats in the Walls" (1924), " The Festival" (1925), " The Colour Out of Space" (1927) and " Pickman's Model" (1927). This means that as of 2023, all works published before 1927 are in the public domain, so no permission or payment is needed to reprint or adapt them. In the United States, the copyright on works published before 1978 expires after 95 years. His writings published in 1927 or earlier are automatically in the public domain his work published in 1928 or later may also be in the public domain. There is controversy over the copyright status of some of the fiction works of American horror writer H.P.
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