[Wikipedia-l] Another copyright question

[Ray Saintonge]

Brion VIBBER wrote:

> Ray Saintonge wrote:
>
>> If somebody is so bored with life that he has to translate all of 
>> "Mein Kampf" he's probably desperate for credit, and deserves all he 
>> can get. Under the general international rule of life + 50 it went 
>> into the public domain on January 1, 1996. 
>
> According to the Wikipedia article on the book, the copyright (owned 
> by the state of Bavaria) doesn't expire until December 31, 2015. Life 
> plus 70 years? Or do the Brazilian clones figure into this? ;)
>
> -- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com) 

Life + 70 is the rule for the European Community.  The general 
world-wide rule which applies here in Canada is life + 50.  There is no 
obligation for any country to give greater copyright protection to a 
foreign writer than it would give to its own citizens.  One very minor 
and very technical point, is that copyrights expire on the first day  of 
the calendar year following the relevant anniversary, however that 
anniversary might be calculated.  ... this may be a concern to the kind 
of person that would miss a New Year's Party just to work on a 
translation of "Mein Kampf".

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