12-31-2018, 01:07 PM | #1 |
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What are the copyright rules for "works-for-hire" in the EU/UK?
This is something I don't know about, but would like to know.
The EU/UK is life + 70. However, what happens to a work that was done as a work-for-hire (like a pulp story written and sold to a magazine, without any royalties). When would it go PD? One of the Doc Savage ghost writers will go PD on Jan 1, 2021. . . . |
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01-01-2019, 07:37 AM | #3 |
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Exactly. For a film, for example, copyright expires 70 years after the deaths of the director, screenplay author and composer, whichever lives the longest.
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01-01-2019, 08:43 AM | #4 |
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Thank both of you. I didn't know this piece of copyright law.
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