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ShellShock · 04-25-2009, 02:18 PM

George Orwell's works are still in copyright in the UK as he died less than 70 years ago. But they are out of copyright in Australia, where copyright is life + 50 years (Orwell died in 1950). If I obtain 1984 from Project Gutenberg in Australia, then reformat it, is it OK for me to post the result here?

The source comes from Australia.
I'm in the UK.
And the MR servers are in Canada.

So which country's copyright laws apply?

04-25-2009, 02:18 PM	#1
ShellShock Wizard Posts: 1,178 Karma: 2431850 Join Date: Sep 2008 Device: IPad Mini 2 Retina	Does UK copyright apply to AUS sourced material? George Orwell's works are still in copyright in the UK as he died less than 70 years ago. But they are out of copyright in Australia, where copyright is life + 50 years (Orwell died in 1950). If I obtain 1984 from Project Gutenberg in Australia, then reformat it, is it OK for me to post the result here? The source comes from Australia. I'm in the UK. And the MR servers are in Canada. So which country's copyright laws apply?