Klarinet Archive - Posting 000124.txt from 2006/11

From: "Mark Charette" <charette@-----.org>
Subj: Re: [kl] OT - VISA - what is that piece?
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 12:17:55 -0500

> What do you mean? Things written after that date don't enter public
> domain? I always thought it was 50 years.

In the Us:

"A series of revisions to the U.S. copyright laws have made increasing
extensions to the copyright term for new works and extensions of the
copyright terms for preexisting works. The copyright term for individual
authors is now life of the author plus 70 years. The copyright term for
corporate copyright owners is now 95 years from publication or 120 years
from creation of the work, whichever occurs earlier. Thus, it has become
increasingly difficult to determine with any degree of confidence when a
work has entered the public domain. Indeed, one can only say with
certainty that works created before 1923 in the United States are now in
the public domain." - http://www.cls.yale.edu/page.asp?file=2/168

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