At 11:19 AM 2/20/2002 -0600, Don A. Elbourne Jr. wrote: >I am also a little blurry on copyrights pertaining to translations that were >done by a committee, since the life of the author seems to play into the >length of the copyright. Does anyone know how this applies? > >Don A. Elbourne Jr. >http://elbourne.org
For works Created 1-1-78 or after: Life + 70 years(1)(or if work of corporate authorship, the shorter of 95 years from publication, or 120 years from creation(2) (1) Term of joint works is measured by life of the longest-lived author. (2) Works for hire, anonymous and pseudonymous works also have this term. See: http://www.unc.edu/~unclng/public-d.htm . Looks to me like, if the "committee" does joint authorship it would be based on the longest-lived author. If some corporation, such as a Bible society is the author, then it is the shorter of 95 years from publication or 120 years from creation. Jerry
