[Wikipedia-l] some questions concerning copyright

[Axel Boldt]

--- Toby Bartels <toby+wikipedia at math.ucr.edu> wrote:
> Axel Boldt wrote:
> 
> >Everything published before 1911 is in the public domain. Everything
> >published between 1911 and 1978 gets 95 years of copyright
protection
> >after the date of publication (in 2006, this will undoubtedly be
> >increased). Everything published after 1978 gets 70 years after the
> >death of the last author, the same as in the European Union. Most
other
> >countries give a straight 50 years after author's death, which is
> >required by the Berne convention.
> 
> By these rules, the EB1911 is still protected!

Yes, I don't know where I got that 1911 number from. Rereading 
http://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ1.html#hlc
everything published before 1922 is in the public domain. 

Axel

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