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Not sure if this is the correct copyright law citation as IANAL. If correct, then the story's copyright expired before Abelard posted it.

304. Duration of copyright: Subsisting copyrights

(a) Copyrights in Their First Term on January 1, 1978.—

(1)(A) Any copyright, in the first term of which is subsisting on January 1, 1978, shall endure for 28 years from the date it was originally secured.

https://www.copyright.gov/title17/92chap3.html

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"Under current U.S. law, the copyrights for his works published before 1978 will not expire until 95 years after the copyrights were obtained, and those published from 1978 onward will remain in effect for 70 years after his death. Thus, these copyrights will remain in effect until dates ranging from 2034 (for his [Asimov's] first story published in 1939), through 2072 (for works published in 1977)" From https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/197287/when-does-t...

Profession was published in 1957. The copyright protection will expire in 2052.

In 2000, abelard.org negotiated with Doubleday, a division of Random House, Inc. and purchased the rights to publish the novella Profession by Isaac Asimov as part of the website, abelard.org.

Not if the copyright was renewed. She the Hirtle chart:

Published in the US, 1929 through 1963, Published with notice and the copyright was renewed, 95 years after publication date.

https://guides.library.cornell.edu/copyright/publicdomain

Please see my reply to glompers, just above your comment.

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