I’m not sure about article 29.3, I think it only says that there is no protection if it is
safe to assume that the author has been dead for more than 70 years (no lawyer either!).
You might be right about the protection for critical editions, it seems that the protection for posthumous works is more common (though, again, not in Swiss legislation).
I will write a mail to the Swiss Copyright Office (thanks for the tip).
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Originally Posted by ousia
pynch,
Article 29.3 of the Swiss Copyright Act seems to imply that after the protection term there is no other protection possibilities. (BTW, I think that copyright protection for critical editions is a possibility in EU law, but only implemented by Germany and Slovenia [I mean, even in the EU is an exception rather than a rule].)
But I’m not a lawyer (I cannot pretend to be one) and German isn’t my mother tongue.
How about asking about this to the Swiss Copyright Office?
Many thanks for your excellent work. |