"Wallace" == Wallace J McLean <ag737@freenet.carleton.ca> writes:
Wallace> Qu'est-ce que vous ne comprenez pas? Serbian copyright Wallace> law is, right now, life+50, but are they under political Wallace> pressure (internal or external) to "harmonize"? If they Wallace> eventually join the EU, presumably they will be forced to Wallace> "harmonize" to life+70, so how close are they to EU Wallace> membership, realistically? I think that Serbia joining EU will be in the far future. There are no discussions currently, next joining states will be Bulgaria and Romania in few years, Turkey is under discussion for within 14 years, former Yougoslavia states (except Slovenia, that is in EU now) and Albania will be even later, Serbia and Albania will be the last. Disscussions will not start before a Kosovo settlement and stabilization. 25 years may be a fair guess. Wallace> In other words, would building a life+50 public domain Wallace> "library" in Serbia, under Serbian law, be a sound Wallace> location in the long term? Sounder or less sound than Wallace> Canada? Or kinda like building on beachfront in Florida Wallace> or the San Andreas fault? I'd say as sound as Canada, at least for the near future. With the advantage that people are seriously working on that since more than one year. Should Serbia fall before Canada, moving everything to Canada should be possible. And the converse of course. Currently, DP-EU _IS_ DP+50. Some +50 books have been prepared, and the clearance rules officially allow life+50 (the procedures are not yet established, the site is just now at the end of the experimental phase and starting officially). The site even allows copyrighted books under the condition that owner of the copyright grants unrestricted redistribution. Carlo