2009/1/12 geni <[email protected]>: >> I've just run across this article, which might be of use in helping >> those who work on the eternal problem of determining whether or not a >> given 20th-century work is in copyright in the US. > > We don't use the copyright not renewed clause stuff and commons' > general support for Must be PD in the country of origin as well as the > US means we mostly dodge the issue.
I'm not so sure that we don't use it - I can't cite chapter and verse, but I've certainly seen it invoked here and there, usually with good-faith due diligence to find renewals. Sometimes it seems like what we need is a quasi-intelligent "PD-old" template - you plug in the known variables, date created and date published and author and country and so on, and it spits out "is therefore public domain because X and Y, under provision Z". Be horrific to maintain, though. -- - Andrew Gray [email protected] _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
