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Absolutely. While in Ukraine, you are subject to Ukrainian copyright law; your own citizenship is of no relevance.
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It's a pity we aren't evolving to a new place, given the amount of content on the Internet and the relative ease of access to more every day.
I'd like to see something more flexible: 20 year authorship copyright from date of creation / initial publication, renewable every ten years for up to 50 years from creation. Works being renewed would be required to be deposited in a global repository. Those not actively protecting their rights would have copyright lapse after 20, 30, 40 and finally and permanently, after 50 years. Copyright would continue to apply to the written word, speech, recordings, photos, moving images, etc. Characters, like Mickey Mouse, could be protected as trademarks; but whole works, like Fantasia, could not. However, Disney could control the source material and watermark, etc, of any copies -- plus continue to be the "authentic authoritative source" for such works after PD applies, including adding newer material which would, of course, have its own 50 year span. By packaging new material with PD, it could effectively "add new value" and continue to "monetize" its original lapsed copyright material. Last edited by SensualPoet; 01-02-2010 at 06:39 PM. |
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Great villains in the recent history of copyright and trademark laws:
1943: The Prankster, one of Superman’s enemies, copyrights the alphabet. No magazines, newspapers, or books can be printed without paying him a royalty. (Superman #22) 1998: Sonny Bono's Copyright Term Extension Act, AKA the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act, AKA the Mickey Mouse Protection Act, becomes law. Vengeance from the grave. 2004: Donald Trump, inspired by the Prankster’s dastardly deed in the 40s, tries to trademark the phrase "You're Fired!" Had he succeeded, he would have profited greatly after the global economic collapse of 2008. Last edited by WT Sharpe; 01-02-2010 at 07:59 PM. |
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Right now, it's simple: either life + 50 years or life + 70 years, depending upon where you live. And you don't need to do formal registration to have copyright: that exists automatically upon creation of the work. Registration is still advisable in many cases because it establishes a formal date from which copyright applies, and allows for recovery of larger damages in the case of infringement. Copyright was created in the first place to encourage creators, by giving them an exclusive right to benefit from their creations, and copyright period is intended to benefir the author and the author's heirs. Going to a 20 years, plus renewals every ten years, re-introduces the whole idea of formal registration to have copyright. Who keeps the records? With whom do you renew? How do you do so, and what does it cost? Quote:
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Dennis, that has always confused me. According to one part of the copyright law, you can't claim a copyright extension by refiling a new copyright unless the material has had significant changes, but authors copyright their books that were in original magazines. If there were no changes, how can the copyright by the author hold up. Can you explain? I'm seriously curious.... (And the US is still not a true follower of Berne, because of all those post 1923, extension exceptions... It's not just life + 50 or 70....) Quote:
I believe there should be a formal copyright process and repository, and it should not be free. Copyright is, above all, about economic value. Even in the Old West of America, the people who got to keep the land paid to have it surveyed, and registered. By not requiring registration, you get all the "orphan works" problems we are wrestling with now.... Quote:
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In some cases, back in the really old days, I believe magazines bought all rights, which would be one matter. In other cases, you had things like stories in a connected world which were published as novelettes in a magazine, and then stuck together to make a book. So you get E. E. Smith's _Triplanetary_, the first of the Lensman series, available from PG, because that version is from the Amazing Stories serialized version, but the other Lensman books aren't PD. Or two different versions of some H. Beam Piper stuff, one from a magazine publication, and one from a book edition. Quote:
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One contact locally is an Orthodox Jew. He had a treasured copy of a rare work on Jewish mysticism, that had been passed around the Jewish community in Xerox copies because the original book was nearly impossible to find. He wanted to publish a new edition, but the author was dead and the publishing house that had issued it no longer existed. It was possible the author had an heir that technically owned the rights, but go ahead, find him/her to get permission. Most of the "orphan works" problems I can think of date from the period before the US joined the Berne convention, but no matter. They're orphaned because it's not clear who owns the rights. "Okay, Joe Schmoe wrote this, but it was published by Puddleglum Press, who normally bought all rights, so Joe's heirs don't have an interest, but Puddlegum went belly up many years ago, and we can't find any records to clarify whether they renewed the copyright, or what happened to the rights when they croaked..." And in any case, I don't want to see a return to the days when you had to file with a ay a fee to the Library of Congress simply to have a copyright. The analogy with settlers on land doesn't hold up, as land has physical existence and can be surveyed and deeded. Intellectual property covered by copyright is a different matter. And finally, while I'd love to see a rights repository where you could check on the status of a work, it really needs to international. ______ Dennis |
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That's the problem with the US copyright laws. If we truly followed Berne, all you needed to know was when the Author died, and work from that. But we don't follow Berne, to protect Hollywood's sound pictures. Actually I don't believe in Berne's Life + x. It should be life. If the Author croaks, the copyright ends. Or flat length x or life, whichever is longer... We have the worst of all worlds in the US.... (I use the land analogy because it was unclaimed by anybody (just like an item is uncreated until somebody creates it), but to claim it, and put it into the economic stream, somebody had to do certain work to formalize the claim and set legal title. Then it could be bought or sold, assigned, traded, ect. Copyright holders want all the privileges of property without any of the cost and work attached. I think that's cheating. And it's bad for copyright itself.) |
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The same would apply to works "created" by a corporation: the existing copyright holder during the original 20 year period can renew, or transfer, every 10 years up to 50 years post publication. The underlying rule is 20 year post publication with optional 10 year registered renewals up to 50 years for the "protected life" of any work. If the original author / copyright holder does nothing, he / she / it is signalling there is no economic value to be protected and the work can then gracefully lapse into PD. The registration body would be "easy": we manage to track Internet domains currently with global and regional bodies. There is no reason a similar process couldn't be created for anyone wishing to protect their material beyond the non-registration initial 20 year period. All existing rules could gracefully flow into this process with all extant works protected for up to 50 years under this process or less under the old rules. |
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