Image: Fortran acs cover

Description: Cover of The Fortran Automatic Coding System for the IBM 704 EDPM, said to be the first book about Fortran.
Title: Fortran acs cover
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Permission: Public domain for 3 reasons, as a work first published in the United States: The book cover, by itself, contains only simple text and simple geometric shapes, below the threshold of originality for copyright protection in the United States. The entire work was first published in 1956 and without a copyright notice: see full copy of the same book at http://www.fortran.com/FortranForTheIBM704.pdf or http://www.fh-jena.de/~kleine/history/languages/FortranAutomaticCodingSystemForTheIBM704.pdf for evidence. U.S. works published before 1978 without a copyright notice are in the public domain. In any case, http://comminfo.rutgers.edu/~lesk/copyrenew.html shows no record of renewal; earliest Fortran book renewed appears to be Programmer's manual, Fortran II by T.E. Bradshaw (registration A343960 on 1958-05-12, renewal RE-279-786 on 1986-01-06). U.S. works before 1964 must be renewed within 28 years; a 1956 publication without renewal would have entered the public domain by 1984 at the latest.
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