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Aet. 41, to an American publisher. According to provisions of the Platt-Simonds Bill (1891), to secure American copyright foreign authors needed to have their American editions manufactured and published in the United States no later than the date of foreign publication. Copyright thus claimed lasted 28 years, renewable for 14 years. The first edition of Esther Waters was not copyright in the United States and was soon pirated.