At 7:48 AM -0400 3/24/07, dhbailey wrote:
This would mean that something could be public domain in Germany (or Canada or Australia, etc.) and still be locked up tight in the U.S. as a work-for-hire copyrighted by a corporation with a protection of 95 years.
Plus which the portion quoted refers to EDITIONS (scientific, no less!!) of works that are presumably already in the public domain, and under U.S. law only the editorial work and the editor's contributions would be covered by the new copyright. Maybe the 25-year length is the Germans' way to deal with the same question?
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