Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Pd-Australia

2009-02-10 Thread Gnangarra
The duration of copyright in photographs was significantly extended as a result of implementing Australia's obligations under the AUSFTA. This made protection for photographs consistent with protection for other types of artistic works. For photographs in which copyrights still subsisted on 1

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Pd-Australia

2009-02-10 Thread Gnangarra
Under the FTA copyright in the US is extinguished if the copyright in the originating country was already extinguished at the time of FTA being implimented 2009/2/11 Stephen Bain stephen.b...@gmail.com 2009/2/10 Liam Wyatt liamwy...@gmail.com: According to the reading by the Copyright

Re: [Wikimediaau-l] Pd-Australia

2009-02-09 Thread Liam Wyatt
Oh I hate this stuff According to the reading by the Copyright Council of Australia (who are the most conservative in these matters) the rules are that the image is PD if the photographer *died* before 1955 - not whether the photograph was *published* before 1955. So, in the case of Anon