1931 publications
#1
Posted 10 May 2006 - 04:46
#4
Posted 10 May 2006 - 08:52
Carles.
#5
Posted 10 May 2006 - 11:13
#6
Posted 10 May 2006 - 13:05
Does anyone have other publications from that year to share with us?
#7
Posted 10 May 2006 - 14:14
#8
Posted 10 May 2006 - 14:45
#9
Posted 10 May 2006 - 15:11
I'm just raising the question
It would clearly be a breach of copyright for me to scan and post pages from the latest Autosport or Motor Sport - I'm just asking if the same rules apply to a 75-year-old publication
#10
Posted 10 May 2006 - 15:31
Only a few weeks ago Cliff Richard and others were to mount a campaign to have the law on copyright either altered or extended because some pop music royalties ( I do not recall whether it was songwriting, music, lyrics or the whole performance ) from the mid to late fifties were about to run out. So clearly it can run out even when the author is still alive. I heard no more as to what the outcome was. We do know there is no copyright for instance on Bach,Beethoven,Mozart etc.
It is all to easy to say everything is always protected for ever to err on the side of caution - I don't believe that is always true. I have yet to read a credible definitive clearly defined statement of hard law on the subject.
#11
Posted 10 May 2006 - 16:12
#12
Posted 10 May 2006 - 17:26
If that is correct, 1931 publications would fall outside this "cut-off" anyway.
Can any legal eagle confirm the rights or wrongs of this recollection?
#13
Posted 10 May 2006 - 22:02
The publisher owns the typographical copyright, which lasts for 25 years.
Therefore, an author who has been dead for 70 years, but whose work has been published within the last 25 years, will still be in (typographical) copyright.
#14
Posted 11 May 2006 - 00:22
#15
Posted 11 May 2006 - 01:00
Originally posted by Alan Cox
Further to last post, I can confirm that, since September 1995 literary copyright lasts for the duration of the author's life, plus 70 years - previously it had been the author's life plus 50 years.
The publisher owns the typographical copyright, which lasts for 25 years.
Therefore, an author who has been dead for 70 years, but whose work has been published within the last 25 years, will still be in (typographical) copyright.
So can I go on?