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Old 09-22-2008, 08:08 PM   #11
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Originally Posted by HarryT View Post
Unfortunately, unlike in the US, where government-producted material is, generally-speaking, in the public domain, in the UK and many former British possessions, it's protected by "Crown Copyright" which is eternal.
Crown copyright is 125 years for unpublished works and 50 for published ones. If an author assigns copyright to he crown its the usual British death + 70
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