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26th June 2007, 10:14 AM #1
When does a 1950 copyright expire?
I'm not a lawyer so I though I'd ask when does a 1950 copyright expire?
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26th June 2007, 10:17 AM #2
Neither am I but it depends on a few things.
What's it a copyright of?
P
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26th June 2007, 10:34 AM #3
Hmm any trick question.
I need to think about it.
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Its 27 July 1923.
Oh BTW I'm not a lawyer either.Visit my website at www.myFineWoodWork.com
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26th June 2007, 10:43 AM #4
My understanding is the publication copyright in Australia used to be 50 years.
However, as a condition of the FTA we signed with the Americans a few years ago,we had to make our copyright the same length as theirs, which I believe is 75 years.
But then I'm not a copyright lawyer either.
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26th June 2007, 10:52 AM #5
Its a gunsmithing book (pdf) that I have offered to host on my website.
Heres more info
http://www.woodworkforums.ubeaut.com...ad.php?t=51610
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26th June 2007, 11:41 AM #6
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26th June 2007, 12:16 PM #7
Thankyou David,
That's the easiest to understand work I have seen.
Its also aussie which is very relevant.
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26th June 2007, 05:23 PM #8Registered
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The Crown copyright gets me, paid for and produced for the people and yet the people dont own it?
Al
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26th June 2007, 05:52 PM #9
yep, unlike the states where most government stuff is public domain
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26th June 2007, 06:55 PM #10Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I´m not so sure about the universe.
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27th June 2007, 07:45 AM #11Senior Member
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I read an article in a paper the other week, saying that in the UK Lonnie Donegan's widow is whingeing because the 50 year copyright on his stuff is just about to finish, and she will lose her nice little earner. She wants the same system as here and in the US presumably.
Cheers
Bill.
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27th June 2007, 08:05 AM #12
Well, it WAS 75 years until the Walt Disney Company lobbied Congress for an extension. Seems the original Mickey Mouse (Steamboat Willie) was about to fall into the public domain (2003) and we couldn't have that, could we? So Congress passed in 1998 the Copyright Term Extension Act (CTEA) which tacked another 20 years onto the copyright holding. So now it's 95 years. It isn't that I care so much how long the term is, it's the idea that a large corporation can get Congress to jump through hoops. Not surprising, but certainly discouraging.
Cheers,
Bob
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28th June 2007, 01:01 AM #13
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