----- Original Message ----- From: Russell McOrmond <russell@flora.ca> Date: Tuesday, January 18, 2005 5:42 pm Subject: Re: [PGCanada] Canadian copyright for corporations
That makes me wonder then, that in a work published by and copyrighted by a corporation, if an author is not credited, and cannot be determined, could I look to acertain a copyright term on the basis of annonymous authorship?
Are you suggesting that anonymous works (which works with corporate ownership tend to be) have only a 50 year term?
Under Canadian law, yes, if the personal author or authors are, and remain, unknown.
I am surprised that corporations are not then "disclosing" authorship when term is near to expire, disclosing the author who died last given
In most cases, that corporate owner itself won't even know.
that in joint authorship the "public domain public good countdown" starts when the last author dies (or is offed... I think the morbidity of public benefit from authors death should be eradicated).
"morbidity of public benefit from authors death" < explain this phrase.