Thread: US Court: Congress can't put public domain back into copyright
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Old 04-07-2009, 06:15 AM   #13
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Originally Posted by pdurrant View Post
But when the UK did it in 1996 it did make the law retrospective, and revived many copyrights, e.g. Kipling's works, which had been out of copyright in the UK since 1st January 1987, went back into copyright on 1st January 1996, and didn't come back out of copyright in the UK until 1st January 2007.
Really? I didn't know that! Thanks for the information. Wouldn't you agree, though, that to do so raises no end of purely practical issues? What does happen to someone who has started, quite legitimately, to use the work while it is in the public domain? Are they suddenly deemed to be in breech of copyright?
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