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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