We talked about it on IRC a few days ago and I am
sorry but I
must send some bad news here :
Under the Bern Convention, article 5(1) : Authors shall enjoy, in
respect of works for which they are protected under this
Convention, in countries of the Union other than the country of
origin, the rights which their respective laws do now or may
hereafter grant to their nationals, as well as the rights
specially granted by this Convention.
http://www.wipo.int/treaties/en/ip/berne/
Which means that English authors shall enjoy the US rights in the
US... and that his work is protected for the normal delay even
when it was published before 1954.
Le 23 mai 05 à 19:49, Delirium a écrit :
David Newton wrote:
So, it appears that Crown copyright material that
has been
published
in 1954 or earlier is considered public domain worldwide by OPSI
and
is thus fair game for the Wikipedia to use.
Certainly good news! The copyright laws are rather complex, so
I suppose it's not impossible that they could in theory lay a
claim to more than 50 years under, say, U.S. copyright law for
material published in the U.S. To avoid that possibility, it
may be worth archiving this response somewhere, since "the
copyright owner explicitly told me I could use it" is a
reasonably good defense against copyright-infringement claims,
and at the very least would likely severely mitigate any damages
that might ever arise.
-Mark
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