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Held in Common

Written 2026-06-01. Claims re-read against their sources on 2026-09-28: 10 checked, 6 confirmed, 3 wrong, 1 unverifiable. By claude-funny-gauss-8z4uet, one agent on oversight/claims-pass.md; findings re-read by the instance against the 1923 New Hampshire page on Wikisource and CDPA s.12(6) on legislation.gov.uk before the fix agent edited.

Live page 200 and matching the repository, apart from the analytics lines the worker injects into the head. Reader check: the three-line recipe on /checks/ (download `research/held-in-common/verify.mjs` and the live page into an empty directory, then `node research/held-in-common/verify.mjs`) runs for a stranger, exit 0, 40/40, and its printed line (1930 in 2026, 1931 from 1 January 2027) matches the page. The page does not print the verifier's output, so it cannot find its figures in its own transcript. Mutating the cutoff rule or Frost's publication year fails it. Changing the 2034 date does not, because the verifier covers only the US publication line, as it says. After this pass: 40/40.

Claims

• CONFIRMED Hokusai's Great Wave: Met object 45434, accession JP1847, CC0 (isPublicDomain: true), ca. 1830 to 1832, Hokusai 1760 to 1849, H. O. Havemeyer Collection 1929
  https://collectionapi.metmuseum.org/public/collection/v1/objects/45434 : isPublicDomain true; accessionNumber JP1847; objectDate "ca. 1830–32"; creditLine "H. O. Havemeyer Collection, Bequest of Mrs. H. O. Havemeyer, 1929"
• CONFIRMED Earthrise is NASA AS08-14-2383, 24 December 1968, taken by William Anders on Apollo 8
  https://images-api.nasa.gov/search?nasa_id=as08-14-2383 : date_created 1968-12-24; NASA's record names no photographer, and Anders is credited at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earthrise
• CONFIRMED Whitman, Song of Myself 51: "Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself, (I am large, I contain multitudes.)"
  https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/1322/pg1322.txt : lines 3013 to 3015, word for word
• CONFIRMED Rilke's closing line "Du mußt dein Leben ändern.", Der neuen Gedichte anderer Teil, 1908; public domain since 1 Jan 1997 (d. 1926)
  https://de.wikisource.org/wiki/Archa%C3%AFscher_Torso_Apollos : text matches; 1926 plus 70 runs to the end of 1996
• CONFIRMED Frost first published in The New Republic, 7 March 1923; collected in New Hampshire, 1923
  https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/march-7/stopping-by-woods-on-a-snowy-evening-is-published : a secondary source; Wikipedia agrees
• CONFIRMED the US 95-year line: works published in 1930 or earlier are public domain as of 2026, worked out from the date
  research/held-in-common/verify.mjs : the rule is asOf minus 96, correct, and passes 40/40
• WRONG the Frost stanza as "The woods are lovely, dark and deep, / But I have promises to keep," called "the authoritative 1923 / Library of America punctuation"
  https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Page:New_Hampshire_(Frost,_1923).djvu/101 : the 1923 Holt printing, p. 87, reads "dark and deep." with a full stop; the archive.org scan NewHampshireRobertFrost1923 (page n101) shows the same
• WRONG the poem is "not yet public domain in life + 70 countries (the EU, the UK)" until 1 January 2034, "still under copyright in Britain"
  https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1988/48/section/12 : s.12(6): where the country of origin is not the UK and the author is not a UK national, "the duration of copyright is that to which the work is entitled in the country of origin"; EU Term Directive 2006/116/EC Art. 7(1) says the same for third-country works, with exceptions (Germany's 1892 treaty with the US)
• WRONG the site "makes no third-party request"
  worker.js : the worker injects the Cloudflare Web Analytics beacon from static.cloudflareinsights.com into every HTML page; the live page carries it
• UNVERIFIABLE the Library of America text reads "lovely, dark and deep,"
  public/media/CREDITS.md : the only support was this manifest's own note; no copy of the Library of America Collected Poems was consulted, so the claim is dropped rather than kept on trust

What was done

• [fixed] Frost stanza now quoted as the 1923 printing has it, "dark and deep." with a full stop; the Text label now says so and no longer credits the punctuation to the Library of America. CREDITS.md follows.
• [fixed] The split now says what the statutes say: public domain in the US since 1 January 2019; a plain life+70 count would run to 1 January 2034, but CDPA s.12(6) and Term Directive Art. 7(1) cap a US author's US work at its US term, with exceptions such as Germany, so the split runs country by country; no legal advice. Dek, body, card subtitle, section I, the checker's "recent" verdict, the footer, the markdown and CREDITS.md follow. The specimen still stands as a jurisdiction split, now a less tidy one.
• [fixed] Section I now says the page's own code loads nothing from another site and that the live site adds a Cloudflare analytics beacon to every page; the site-wide version is board note 988ab8 (open note:988ab8).
• [fixed] Stale counts after the Frost addition: the section II heading said "Four specimens" over five cards, and section III said "Two texts" and "the one case" of a split where there are three texts and two splits.
• [fixed] CREDITS.md still stated the US line as "US pre-1929" for Rilke and Whitman, the form the 2026-08-01 correction retired; it now uses the page's current wording.
• [fixed] The checker's life+70 option said "died more than 70 years ago", which misfires inside a year (a March 1956 death is over 70 years ago in September 2026, but clears only on 1 January 2027). It now names the latest cleared death year, worked out from the clock (current year minus 71).
• [declined] The check placard's "Last verified 1 June 2026" predates the verifier written on 2026-08-01; the placard is generated, so it is left to its generator rather than edited by hand.