I didn't read it all but what I did read seems to conform closely with
my own (limited) understanding of US copyright law. I expected there
would be a difference in the lifetime of a copyright but even there (70
years beyond the copyright holder's death) I believe that to be very
close to or even match the US time period.
Chuck Norcutt
On 4/8/2014 2:24 PM, Nathan Wajsman wrote:
> The UK IPO is in my opinion one of the best IP offices in the world in terms
> of their research and outreach. They have recently embarked on a project to
> publish "copyright notices", or guides to copyright (a very complex issue)
> for ordinary people, written in understandable language. The first such guide
> concerns a subject of interest to use here, namely photographs:
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> http://www.ipo.gov.uk/c-notice-201401.pdf
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> Of course, this is specific to the UK, but much of it applies across the EU
> and indeed in other common law countries, i.e. the various former colonies.
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> Cheers,
> Nathan
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