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Originally Posted by SteveEisenberg
The US government today released Trans-Pacific Partnership text with copyright term language identical to that previously Wikileaked and discussed in this thread:
https://ustr.gov/sites/default/files...l-Property.pdf
I previously hoped that New Zealand being granted a somewhat broader public domain deal than Canada was an oversight, but it is true.
As I read it, a large number of eBooks today available, on Canadian public domain sites, will have to be removed for up to 20 years. If someone can find a way to twist the wording otherwise, please let us know it. |
Steve, section 18.10 of the document states:
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Unless provided in Article 18.64 (Application of Article 18 of the Berne Convention and Article 14.6 of the TRIPS Agreement), a Party shall not be required to restore protection to subject matter that on the date of entry into force of this Agreement for that Party has fallen into the public domain in its territory.
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That seems to me to explicitly state that what's in the public domain will stay there. How do you interpret it as saying the opposite?