Thread: Random House being sued for not paying royalties
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Old 04-20-2015, 06:21 AM   #30
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Originally Posted by HarryT View Post
The copyright in Germany (and in all other countries with a "life+70" copyright term) on Goebbel's works expires on 1st Jan 2016 (because he died in 1945), but because US copyright law does not implement the "rule of the shorter term" (the consideration that if a work is out of copyright in the country of its initial publication, it's also considered to be out of copyright in another country), it will continue to be protected by US copyright for many more years.
US Intellectual Property Law has little to commend it. Powerful lobby groups are wonderful things.
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