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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