Thanks, Nathan, it was a clear and helpful presentation. But it needs an
editor! Consider how the first sentence of this extract is completely
undermined by the detail which follows:
"The length of the copyright period will depend on when the image was
created. Generally speaking, copyright
in images lasts for the life of the creator plus 70 years from the end of
the calendar year of their death. That
means that images less than 70 years old are still in copyright, and older
ones may well be, depending on when
the creator died."
In other words, what determines the length of the copyright period is
whether the creator is alive or dead, *not* when the image was created.
Although I suspect that the detail is either wrong, or incomplete. Which
only serves to prove that it is an area of great complexity. QED?
Piers
-----Original Message-----
From: Nathan Wajsman [mailto:photo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: 09 April 2014 05:29
To: Olympus Camera Discussion
Subject: Re: [OM] Copyright explained by the UK Intellectual Property Office
The 70 years is the case on both sides of the Atlantic, yes. The main
differences between the US and EU lies in the exceptions ("fair use") which
are defined differently, and in the application of copyright (in the US
software can be patented, in Europe it cannot but it is protected by
copyright).
Cheers,
Nathan
Nathan Wajsman
Alicante, Spain
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YNWA
On Apr 8, 2014, at 11:41 PM, Chuck Norcutt wrote:
> 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:
>>
>> http://www.ipo.gov.uk/c-notice-201401.pdf
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Nathan
>>
>> Nathan Wajsman
>> Alicante, Spain
>> http://www.frozenlight.eu
>> http://www.greatpix.eu
>> PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws
>> Blog: http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/
>>
>> YNWA
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