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Originally Posted by Hitch
Pandathepanda:
Are you saying that the law doesn't state "the latter of" or "the earlier of," whichever comes later/sooner? At no spot? That seems exceedingly bizarre to me.
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nope none of that
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I mean...obviously in the case of the book you're discussing, it's PD, in either case, as it's after (either) 1973 or 1988, but "grey area" doesn't even come CLOSE to discussing what chaos could ensue on an author that lived in the middle of the last century and on a bit.
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South Africa is like that, Most cases like that end up in court, that is disputed, but then most cases like that end up being on a case by case bases
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The lawyer said it doesn't have that clarification? Really? Wow.
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its normally settled on a case by case bases. THere is a joke here that copyright law was instituted in South Africa to keep America happy. in the late 1980's when Nintendo brought out the NES, Golden China brought their Pirate version of the NES to SA and sold it here, Nintendo got a court order to stop them from selling it, and no one really listened.
Our country is "so unique" that one of the insurance companies made a advert about it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ViorVDgiiOg