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Old 05-11-2014, 02:42 PM   #45
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Originally Posted by Little.Egret View Post
Is there a copyright geek in the house ?

IE and for example does the UK or the EU have a least favoured nation rule (not that it's called that) so if it's out of copyright where the author resided or has citizenship then it's out of copyright abroad too ?
<raises hand>

You're thinking of the "rule of the shorter term". The UK used to apply that to US works. And then didn't. And now does again. But for most of the period when US copyrights expired earlier than when they did in the UK, we weren't applying the rule of the shorter term, and so those works are still in copyright in the UK. It will vary from country to country in the EU.
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