Daniel Kinzler daniel@brightbyte.de hat am 21. Mai 2008 um 10:20 geschrieben:
Note that there is a difference between a work published anonymously, and a work whos author is unknown. Anonymous works are not problematic if the date of publication is known: copyright generally ends 70 years later. If the author is
AFAIK most countries don't have such a paragraph. Germany has one but even there the heirs can say it's the picture of their ancestor and then the 70 years p.m.a. applies.
Therefore my conclusion is true and extending the copyright for anonymous works to 150 years would result in the biggest mass deletion request we've ever seen on Commons.
Take the 228 years old newspaper NZZ in
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They distribute it on its own, claiming you can use it for any purpose? really? got a link?
http://www.nzz.ch/nachrichten/medien/wsj_chefredaktor_1.739127.html Robert Thomsons image.
Regards
Robin