[Foundation-l] Copyright terms, again

Wed Nov 10 18:30:56 UTC 2010

On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 7:01 PM, Milos Rancic <millosh at gmail.com> wrote:

> My precise question is: Does US law follow local copyright laws in
> relation to the works published locally and by authors with local
> citizenship? Or not?

No, many countries apply the 'law of shorter term' (that is, works
from other countries are under copyright only if they are under
copyright (by time) in both countries, but the United States does not.
However, if a work was already out of copyright in its homeland on
January 1, 1996, it is free of copyright in the United States as well.

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André Engels, andreengels at gmail.com