On Fri, Sep 1, 2017 at 10:44 AM, Karan, Cem F CIV USARMY RDECOM ARL (US) < cem.f.karan....@mail.mil> wrote:
Wait... what??? You mean the copyright goes on until the next two world > wars occur? How do they define a world war? What if we luck out and no > world wars occur? > No, it's that the expiration of copyright was retroactively tolled by specific French legislation (one for WWI, one for WWII) for the time that publication in France was under military censorship, preventing French authors from fully exploiting their commercial rights. Presumably if France was occupied again, a similar law would be passed when the occupation was lifted. The status of these increases under the current life + 70 years regime is not very clear, since that added 20 years and the maximum extension was only 15 years. In addition, authors who are "mort pour la France" (either as soldiers or as civilians killed in war) are granted an additional 30 years of copyright (thus life + 100) in compensation for whatever works they did not get to create. There are only about 35 creators in this position officially, but new ones could in principle be recognized at any time. > Just to double check, droit d’auteur is the equivalent of moral rights, > correct? > Yes, but it generally extends to all types of works. -- John Cowan http://vrici.lojban.org/~cowan co...@ccil.org Verbogeny is one of the pleasurettes of a creatific thinkerizer. --Peter da Silva
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