Klarinet Archive - Posting 000179.txt from 2007/06

From: "Keith Bowen" <bowenk@-----.com>
Subj: RE: [kl] Re: Copyright
Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2007 13:02:15 -0400

Very useful, thanks!

Keith

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From: klarinet-return-91100-bowenk=compuserve.com@-----.org
[mailto:klarinet-return-91100-bowenk=compuserve.com@-----.org] On Behalf
Of Tim Roberts
Sent: 26 June 2007 17:37
To: klarinet@-----.org
Subject: RE: [kl] Re: Copyright

On Tue, 26 Jun 2007 07:27:31 +0100, "Keith Bowen"
<bowenk@-----.com> wrote:
> Tim
>
> Thanks for the correction. Isn't there some tangle about the pre-1977
works,
> depending on whether or not they affixed a copyright notice to the work at
> the time?
>

Yes. Works first published prior to 1978 without a copyright notice are
also in the public domain. And if they didn't register the copyright,
that date moves up to 1989.

There's a very useful chart here from the Cornell University Copyright
Information Center:
http://www.copyright.cornell.edu/training/Hirtle_Public_Domain.htm

--
Tim Roberts, timr@-----.com
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.

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