15 Sep
2006
15 Sep
'06
10:02 p.m.
On 9/15/06, Wallace J.McLean <ag737@freenet.carleton.ca> wrote:
Jon Ingram writes:
The UK law is life+70, for books both before and after 1909.
Is it?
Yes. The move from life+50 to life+70 in the UK was retroactive, and brought 20 years worth of material back into the copy-restricted realm from the public domain. Note, however, that if a non-UK work becomes public domain in its country of origin, then UK law states that it is also public domain in the UK... a common provision in copyright law in many countries, although not I believe in the USA. I believe this would cover most US-authored works published before 1923. -- Jon Ingram