On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 01:42:32PM -0800, Greg Newby wrote:
The US is 95 or 120 years, per the 1998 copyright extensions. Our copyright rules describe US guidelines: http://gutenberg.org/howto/copyright-howto
The best resource I know of for worldwide copyright durations is at the OnlineBooks page: http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/okbooks.html
Oops - sorry, I forgot to mention: Yes, Australia has moved to life+70 (essentially the same as the EU). Effective January 1 2005 or thereabouts. It is *not* retroactive, at least for most works. Sounds like this basically means that nothing new will enter the public domain in Australia for at least 20 years, but stuff that is already public domain will stay there. Steven Thomas has sent some newspaper article links about it to this mailing list, I think. But I don't know of a link to the actual text of the law for complete details.
-- Greg
On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 03:38:47PM -0500, Gutenberg9443@aol.com wrote:
In a message dated 1/4/2005 1:17:05 PM Mountain Standard Time, joshua@hutchinson.net writes:
<<I'm confused. Is there a problem with PG-Australia <<(life+50) or PG-Europe (life+70)?
Josh, the best I can tell right now, Australia is life+50 BUT a law has just been passed, though not to my knowledge ratified or else ratified but not yet going into effect, to put Australia in the same area as the other countries.
Also to the best of my knowledge, other countries have now moved to life+95, and if the US hasn't done so yet it is in the process of doing so.
Even speaking as a writer, guarding my copyrights fiercely because I think that if the publisher and the illustrator are still making money from my creation I also should make money from it, I think life +95 is absurd. Life +25 should be quite adequate for anybody. There are many people in this community who consider even that to be absurd.
If my reply is incorrect, please somebody correct me. Flaming is not necessary. Really.
Anne
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