[Foundation-l] Copyright terms, again

Wed Nov 10 18:48:36 UTC 2010

On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 19:30, Andre Engels <andreengels at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

Thanks, that helps! That means that the right year for Serbia is 1946.