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Originally Posted by Ralph Sir Edward
Nate, this brings in a piece of copyright law that I'm not fully knowledgeable about. How do works for hire copyright length get set? Particularly in a life + 50 country? Since Laurence Donovan died in 1950, life + 50 should be 2000 (i.e.public domain in a life + 50 country). How is that being overridden? (anybody else who knows the answer, please chime in.) RSE
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I had to go look it up again, and I don't think Commonwealth countries have a work for hire rule. I've found anonymous author rules, but that's not the same thing. Pilotbob is correct on the years.
BTW, not all the Doc Savage novels are work for hire in the US. I know of at least once that Conde Nast, the copyright holder, bought the copyright from an author's widow. I don't think any of the books are work for hire.