Wallace J.McLean <ag737@freenet.carleton.ca> writes
From the UK Act:
The relevant legislation, which you are quoting, IS NOT an Act (primary legislation) it is a Statutory Instrument (SI) (secondary legislation) specifically it is: Statutory Instrument 1995 No. 3297 The Duration of Copyright and Rights in Performances Regulations 1995
Unless I'm missing something, reading all these sections together, esp. s. 5(1) of the Schedule, spell non-retroactivity of the stupid, stupid, stupid 20-year extension to life+70. If the life+50 term had already run out, the life+70 term does NOT apply.
How when reading the SI did you miss this? Extended and revived copyright 17. In the following provisions of this Part— "extended copyright" means any copyright which subsists by virtue of the new provisions after the date on which it would have expired under the 1988 provisions; and "revived copyright" means any copyright which subsists by virtue of the new provisions after having expired under the 1988 provisions or any earlier enactment relating to copyright. Which rather clearly demonstrates that revived copyright exists. The term is also used in several other parts of the SI, for example dealing with the ownership of revived copyright. -- Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search http://www.mersenne.org/prime.htm Livejournal http://brett-dunbar.livejournal.com/ Brett Paul Dunbar To email me, use reply-to address