Quote:
Originally Posted by HarryT
I don't know about Swiss law, but in EU law, the only special provision for posthumous works is that the initial publisher gets a fixed 25-year copyright term. Beyond that they have the same life+70 copyright term as anything else.
|
In Germany these 25 years are only granted if the author has been dead for more than 70 years when the new work is initially published. I thought that it is the same with EU law (if we leave aside the more complicated British law for a moment). Is that wrong?