On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 19:30, Andre Engels <andreengels(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 7:01 PM, Milos Rancic
<millosh(a)gmail.com> wrote:
My precise question is: Does US law follow local
copyright laws in
relation to the works published locally and by authors with local
citizenship? Or not?
No, many countries apply the 'law of shorter term' (that is, works
from other countries are under copyright only if they are under
copyright (by time) in both countries, but the United States does not.
However, if a work was already out of copyright in its homeland on
January 1, 1996, it is free of copyright in the United States as well.