On Monday 22 March 2004 05:48, David Raleigh Arnold wrote: > > As far as I know, currently in the United States of America the > > Copyright stays with a person or organization until 125 years > > 70, I thought.
I'm getting confused again - Canada is playing around with some ideas here as well. (Serves me right for relying on memory instead of looking it up.) Project Gutenberg PD description at http://promo.net/pg/vol/pd.html is decent pretty good at a high level outline. > > > after > > the death of that person. However, since the laws were changed over > > time, if the work was published > > *in the U. S.* The laws are different for each country. > > > before a specific date (I use 1904, > > but it might be 1907), > > It advances every year. It started in 1911 or something like that, > so it was pushed back 20 years? It's hard to keep up. :-( daveA Yup. 1923 is a major cutoff in the US .... anything published with a copyright mark before 1923 has a 75 year copyright protection; after 1923 and before 1977 has 95 year protection; anything after 1977 - hope the author has put it into public domain (or GPL) 'cause your waiting a loooooong time. Sorry for confusion /Hans _______________________________________________ Lilypond-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
