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Originally Posted by HarryT
"Publication" is a well-defined concept. For example, in the EU we have the concept of a "typographical copyright" (which I don't think exists in the US). This is protection for a particular "layout" of a work, and has a non-extendable 25 year term from the date of initial publication.
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Which is why I asked - I wanted to know specifically what Sweetpea was referring to by "publication" because I am in the US and I believe Sweetpea is in the Netherlands. I wanted to be clear how the word was being used, especially since in the book world people most often use in the sense of whether or not an author was lucky/good/rich enough to "get published". In other fields, it can be used with a different meaning, and changes made to copyright law affect more than just books.
I hope that the current terms are not extended yet again, but the "Life+" system is still easier to sort out than creation date. Unless we go back to requiring registration for protection, which I would not agree with unless they made it a free process, and that's not gonna happen here.