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Originally Posted by Ralph Sir Edward
A point of curiosity, Harry. What is the term for video/cinema I.P. in the UK? I know that the performance was 50 years and up'ed to 70, but I have never heard about cinema.
Australia gives it 50 years for the actual film, but life + 70 for all the parts. (script, actors, music, props, ect...)
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Australia'a book copyright changed in 2005 in order to accommodate a US Trade Agreement - that's when books authors were copyrighted to death + 70.
However up to 2005 the ruling was death + 50 years.
So if an author died in 1954 or prior then the 50 year ruling applies, as the law is not retrospective.
Just thought I'd make that distinction re books and authors. (In the event of some unwitting confusion because the reader didn't realise that you were talking of video/cinema)