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Re: [OM] Copyright explained by the UK Intellectual Property Office

Subject: Re: [OM] Copyright explained by the UK Intellectual Property Office
From: Chris Barker <ftog@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2014 14:45:33 +0100
Oh, I’m glad that I haven’t read it yet, Piers.  That sort of laziness would 
have wound me up for the remainder of the day!

Chris

On 9 Apr 2014, at 13:13, Piers Hemy <piers@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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?

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