> -----Original Message----- > From: License-discuss [mailto:license-discuss-boun...@opensource.org] On > Behalf Of John Cowan > Sent: Friday, September 01, 2017 1:22 PM > To: license-discuss@opensource.org > Subject: Re: [License-discuss] [Non-DoD Source] Re: NOSA 2.0, Copyfraud and > the US Government > > > On Fri, Sep 1, 2017 at 10:44 AM, Karan, Cem F CIV USARMY RDECOM ARL (US) > <cem.f.karan....@mail.mil < Caution- > mailto: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.
OK, that makes a lot more sense. Thanks! > > 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 Caution-http://vrici.lojban.org/~cowan < > Caution-http://vrici.lojban.org/~cowan > co...@ccil.org < Caution- > mailto:co...@ccil.org > > Verbogeny is one of the pleasurettes of a creatific thinkerizer. > --Peter da Silva
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