Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel
in copyright for 70 years after the author's death, unless we're talking about canada and some other countries where it's 50 years, except for things published before 1924 (or whatever it is) which are in the PD in the US but nowhere else regardless of the date of death of the author UNLESS their copyright was explicitly renewed, in which case they're *not* in the PD there either, and by the way in France don't forget to add + 6 years 152 days for the World War I, + 8 years and 120 days for the World War II, [+ 30 years if the author died on active service], and if we're talking about a translation then the date of death of the author is irrelevant because in fact the key date is the death of the translator, and the same holds true for a compilation of works in a specific order...
no, no, you're right, there's nothing at all confusing about that.  |