----- Original Message ----- From: Gardner Buchanan <gbuchana@rogers.com> Date: Saturday, January 15, 2005 4:57 pm Subject: RE: [PGCanada] Copyright clearance for PG Canada
If you assume the age at death could have been as high as 100 and the age at publishing as low as 12, you wind up with 1867.
90 years and 20 years gives 1885.
Anything that falls under this rule would be a shoo-in for PG USA, and it would be simplest to just post it there.
It would be nice to have it stored in a Canadian collection, though, too. But this will provide a good argument to policy-makers to give Canadians a failsafe rule, if 19th-century Canadiana has to be digitized in the US because of a lacuna in our own laws! However, we may have a way out. We need to look at whether the 1924 term extension has ever been judicially commented on, and whether it's been found to be retroactive or not?