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    Default 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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    Neither am I but it depends on a few things.

    What's it a copyright of?

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    Hmm any trick question.

    I need to think about it.

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    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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    Quote Originally Posted by bitingmidge View Post
    Neither am I but it depends on a few things.

    What's it a copyright of?

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    Its a gunsmithing book (pdf) that I have offered to host on my website.

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    Thankyou David,
    That's the easiest to understand work I have seen.
    Its also aussie which is very relevant.
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    The Crown copyright gets me, paid for and produced for the people and yet the people dont own it?

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    yep, unlike the states where most government stuff is public domain
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    Quote Originally Posted by echnidna View Post
    I'm not a lawyer so I though I'd ask when does a 1950 copyright expire?
    About 50 years after the owners death, if it was not assigned to another living person, I own a few literary copyrights thats what I was told by the copyright people..
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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.

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    Quote Originally Posted by craigb View Post
    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.
    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.
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    Quote Originally Posted by echnidna View Post
    I'm not a lawyer so I though I'd ask when does a 1950 copyright expire?
    Depends on the country , in china and korea its about 3 days after they get a copy espically for CD's & DVD'S
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