In India the copyright is counted from the year of its first publication. It's different for different countries. For some countries, the copyright expiry is counted from the year of death of the author.
Here I was highlighting the difficulties in proving the year of publishing especially in India where most of the decade old artifacts are still not online. - Sreejith K. On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 5:19 PM, Strainu <strain...@gmail.com> wrote: > 2011/5/10 Sreejith K. <sreejithk2...@gmail.com>: > > I wonder how the citizenship of the author helps. The only thing that is > of > > importance in a PD claim is the date of first publishing. > > Not really. For instance, in Europe the copyright protection runs for > 70 years from the DEATH of the author, not the first publish date. So > if the author is European (or American, for that matter), the picture > might not yet be PD. I don't know the rules in India, but perhaps > there the protection period runs from the publication date, in which > case the citizenship of the author is important. > > Strainu > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
