Re:Planet eBook – Classic literature publications formatted ...
by dragonwriter on Sunday October 25, 2020 @04:45PM
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> It's more complicated than that. Works published from 1978 or later (when the 1976 Copyright Act kicked in) is life + 70 years. Works published before then are 95 dates from publication.
Actually, it's more complicated than that: for post-1978 works, life + 70 is for works of individual authors, 95 years is for works of corporate authorship.
Re:Planet eBook – Classic literature publications formatted ...
by mgbennet on Sunday October 25, 2020 @04:58PM
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Actually actually, it's even more complicated than that! Works published between 1925 and 1978 needed to file a copyright extension notice before the 28th anniversary of initial publication or the work fell into public domain.
Copyright law is a maze whose rules have changed numerous times over the decades. Here's a pretty good flowchart for U.S. copyright: https://www.sunsteinlaw.com/copyright-flowchart
It's more complicated than that. Works published from 1978 or later (when the 1976 Copyright Act kicked in) is life + 70 years. Works published before then are 95 dates from publication.