On 24/05/07, geni <geniice(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 5/24/07, David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
Oh yes it does. Ordnance Survey maps for
example.
Are not sound recordings. They are not talking about crown copyright
so the publication +50 on OS maps would remain.
The sound recording copyright is somewhat non standard under UK law
where everything else other than typesetting (20 years probably one of
the few copyright lengths I agree with) is life +70.
Typesetting and "discovery" are both oddities - if you discovered and
published a new Shakespeare script then (apart from being offered
three different chairs of literature) you'd get a copyright of
something on the order of fifteen-twenty years even though the work,
if published, would be out of copyright aeons ago.
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- Andrew Gray
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