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Re:Previously Unknown Warhol Works Discovered on Floppy Disk... by DanBC on Thursday April 24, 2014 @09:52AM (#7640240)
I really don't understand copyright.

Warhol created these images in the 1980s, but the images are copyrighted 2014? And the copyright is not Warhols butthe foundations?

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Re:Previously Unknown Warhol Works Discovered on Floppy Disk... by dionidium on Thursday April 24, 2014 @10:26AM (#7640432)
It's the year it was first published:

Form of Notice. — If a notice appears on the copies, it shall consist of the following three elements:

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(2) the year of first publication of the work; in the case of compilations or derivative works incorporating previously published material, the year date of first publication of the compilation or derivative work is sufficient.

Source: http://www.copyright.gov/title17/92chap4.html#401

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