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 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 photographers this gets > > even trickier. > > http://www.copyright.org.au/information/introduction/intro-5.htm > > Photos are a special case. Prior to the FTA changes, the rule was 50 > years after the photo was *taken*. Any photo taken in Australia before > 1 Jan 1955 is in the public domain in Australia. > > After the FTA changes, the rule became life of the author plus 70, > just like for other types of works. This applies to any photo taken > after 1 Jan 2005, or any photo still in copyright as at 1 Jan 2005. > > That's only Australian copyright though, things can be under copyright > still in the US even if they are out of copyright elsewhere, thanks to > stupid American copyright law. > > -- > Stephen Bain > stephen.b...@gmail.com > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimediaau-l mailing list > Wikimediaau-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaau-l > -- GN. http://gnangarra.redbubble.com/
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