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Re: OT: How to become a mutopia-writer
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Hans Forbrich |
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Re: OT: How to become a mutopia-writer |
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Mon, 22 Mar 2004 09:46:23 -0700 |
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On Monday 22 March 2004 05:48, David Raleigh Arnold wrote:
> > As far as I know, currently in the United States of America the
> > Copyright stays with a person or organization until 125 years
>
> 70, I thought.
I'm getting confused again - Canada is playing around with some ideas here as
well. (Serves me right for relying on memory instead of looking it up.)
Project Gutenberg PD description at http://promo.net/pg/vol/pd.html is decent
pretty good at a high level outline.
>
> > after
> > the death of that person. However, since the laws were changed over
> > time, if the work was published
>
> *in the U. S.*
The laws are different for each country.
>
> > before a specific date (I use 1904,
> > but it might be 1907),
>
> It advances every year. It started in 1911 or something like that,
> so it was pushed back 20 years? It's hard to keep up. :-( daveA
Yup. 1923 is a major cutoff in the US .... anything published with a
copyright mark before 1923 has a 75 year copyright protection; after 1923 and
before 1977 has 95 year protection; anything after 1977 - hope the author has
put it into public domain (or GPL) 'cause your waiting a loooooong time.
Sorry for confusion
/Hans
Re: OT: How to become a mutopia-writer, Hans Forbrich, 2004/03/21
Re: OT: How to become a mutopia-writer, David Raleigh Arnold, 2004/03/22
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