On Sun, 17 Apr 2005 09:53:13 -0700, Adele wrote: >No, the 1923 is fixed in stone. After 1923 you switch to "date of the >author's death plus 50 years" (in Canada anyway, I don't know if the UK >decided on the same number of years - in the US I think they went for >more) UK is date of death plus 60 years. This is the same for all European Union countries, so that includes France, Belgium, Netherlands, Germany, Spain, in fact many of the big lacemaking countries.
>But you also need to be careful because some authors donate their works >in perpetuity to an institution (university or something) and their >works will never be out of copyright. Generally these are famous >authors, though, not little lace enthusiasts ;-) That must be a law in the country concerned; it can't be done in perpetuity in UK. Copyrights held by institutions expire just like all other copyrights. J M Barrie wanted to donate the royalties from Peter Pan to benefit a childrens' hospital in perpetuity. There had to be a clause specially included in an Act of Parliament to make it possible. -- Brought up in the provinces in the Forties and Fifties one learned early that life is generally something that happens elsewhere. - Alan Bennett Steph Peters, Manchester, England [EMAIL PROTECTED] Scanned by WinProxy http://www.Ositis.com/ - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
