Thank you Michael, this helps a lot. I knew my question was silly but I didn't know the reason ;-).
Aubrey 2010/11/10 Michael Snow <[email protected]> > On 11/10/2010 11:27 AM, Andrea Zanni wrote: > > 2010/11/10 Milos Rancic<[email protected]> > >> We are discussing now at WM RS list about treating copyright terms for > >> Serbian authors. > >> > >> Terms are: > >> * Previous situation was 50 years after author's death. > >> * The new copyright term in Serbia came in 2004, introducing 70 years > >> after author's death. > >> * That means that works which authors died in 1953 or before is > >> something like CC-BY (as in any continental jurisdiction). > > Sorry for nitpicking, but I don't understand the 1953. > > If you have 50 years, it should be 1960 (or 1959, if it is 50+1) > > As well, if you have 70 years, it should be 1940 (or 1939, if it is 70+1, > > and this is the case of most european countries I think). > > Probably there's something related to the year of the new law coming in > > (2004), but I do not understand. > Presumably the copyright extension only applied to works still subject > to copyright when it took effect. Therefore, authors who died in 1953 > would have had their Serbian copyrights expire before 2004, based on a > "life-plus-50-years" term, and the works of authors who died in 1954 > would remain under copyright because the "life-plus-70-years" term took > effect in 2004 before their Serbian copyrights expired. So basically no > additional copyrights will expire for another 14 years. > > Copyright extension has generally worked to create a massive dead period > during which no works are added to the public domain. It's for similar > reasons, albeit with a more complicated transition in its copyright > regime, that the public domain in the US has been stuck at works created > before 1923 for ages now. > > --Michael Snow > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
