On Monday 22 March 2004 05:48, David Raleigh Arnold wrote:
As far as I know, currently in the United States of America the Copyright stays with a person or organization until 125 years
70, I thought.
I'm getting confused again - Canada is playing around with some ideas here as well. (Serves me right for relying on memory instead of looking it up.) Project Gutenberg PD description at http://promo.net/pg/vol/pd.html is decent pretty good at a high level outline.
after the death of that person. However, since the laws were changed over time, if the work was published
*in the U. S.*
The laws are different for each country.
before a specific date (I use 1904, but it might be 1907),
It advances every year. It started in 1911 or something like that, so it was pushed back 20 years? It's hard to keep up. :-( daveA
Yup. 1923 is a major cutoff in the US .... anything published with a copyright mark before 1923 has a 75 year copyright protection; after 1923 and before 1977 has 95 year protection; anything after 1977 - hope the author has put it into public domain (or GPL) 'cause your waiting a loooooong time. Sorry for confusion /Hans