[Foundation-l] Copyright terms, again

[Milos Rancic]

On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 20:27, Andrea Zanni <zanni.andrea84 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2010/11/10 Milos Rancic <millosh at gmail.com>
>
>> We are discussing now at WM RS list about treating copyright terms for
>> Serbian authors.
>>
>> Terms are:
>> * Previous situation was 50 years after author's death.
>> * The new copyright term in Serbia came in 2004, introducing 70 years
>> after author's death.
>> * That means that works which authors died in 1953 or before is
>> something like CC-BY (as in any continental jurisdiction).
>>
>
> Sorry for nitpicking, but I don't understand the 1953.
> If you have 50 years, it should be 1960 (or 1959, if it is 50+1)
> As well, if you have 70 years, it should be 1940 (or 1939, if it is 70+1,
> and this is the case of most european countries I think).
> Probably there's something related to the year of the new law coming in
> (2004), but I do not understand.

Present law is from 2004, which has changed term from 50 to 70 years
after death of the author. At that moment everything which was PD is
still PD. After that, 70 years term is in power. That means that if
author died 1953 or earlier, it is PD. Otherwise, we would need to
wait until 2023 for those works.