The law binds people, not books. You are bound by the laws of the country where you is. The laws of your country will tell you how they apply themselves to works, wherever in the world they were published or created. Jonathan Ingram is in the UK, and bound by UK law. I'm in Canada and bound by Canadian law. The books I contribute to PG in the US have to satisfy US law, but to be safe, I also make sure they are PD under Canadian law, too. I'm chomping at the bit to be able to do other books which only have to jump through the PD-Canada hoop, and not the US law as well.... The 70 years reference, in the UK, means years post mortem autoris. In Canada, the figure is 50 years. (There are other wrinkles in both countries, like R Copyright, posthumous publication, anonymous and pseudonymous, joint authors; and in the UK, edition copyright -- that's the copyright the UK publisher claims, aka "typographical arrangements".) Summary: Copyright laws bind people, not books. ----- Original Message -----
From Rod Butcher <rbutcher@hyenainternet.com> Date Fri, 30 Sep 2005 13:35:20 +1000 To Project Gutenberg Volunteer Discussion <gutvol-d@lists.pglaf.org> Subject Re: [gutvol-d] Felix Holt copyright ?
Can I get some clarification : I have read the copyright FAQ. Most of the books we deal with here in Australia were printed in the UK. Do the rules apply everywhere, in the country where I am or the country where the book was published ? Jonathan Ingram's post seems to indicate the latter i.e. all books he considers for scanning where he is (UK) must be elligible under UK law, irrespective of where they were published. Hence they have to have been published (effectively printed) more than 70 years ago, no matter where they were published. Correct ? I'm still faced with wondering how Wordsworth Classics UK can claim a "presentation of text format" copyright on books whereas Penguin Classics doesn't. Today's Topics: 1. re: on the issue of hand-crafted versus computer-generated .html versions (Jared Buck) 2. re: on the issue of hand-crafted versus computer-generated .html versions (Bowerbird@aol.com) 3. re: A Picture Says More Than 10,000 Words (Bowerbird@aol.com) 4. Re: Posting for List (Jared Buck) 5. re: on the issue of hand-crafted versus computer-generated .html versions (Bowerbird@aol.com) 6. Re: on the issue of hand-crafted versus computer-generated .html versions (Marcello Perathoner) 7. Re: Felix Holt copyright ? (Bruce Albrecht) 8. Re: Felix Holt copyright ? (Rod Butcher) _______________________________________________ gutvol-d mailing list gutvol-d@lists.pglaf.org http://lists.pglaf.org/listinfo.cgi/gutvol-d