On 24/05/07, geni geniice@gmail.com wrote:
On 5/24/07, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
Oh yes it does. Ordnance Survey maps for example.
Are not sound recordings. They are not talking about crown copyright so the publication +50 on OS maps would remain.
The sound recording copyright is somewhat non standard under UK law where everything else other than typesetting (20 years probably one of the few copyright lengths I agree with) is life +70.
Typesetting and "discovery" are both oddities - if you discovered and published a new Shakespeare script then (apart from being offered three different chairs of literature) you'd get a copyright of something on the order of fifteen-twenty years even though the work, if published, would be out of copyright aeons ago.