Posted by Scott Dorsey on 01/10/06 20:05

Kernix <jimkernicky@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>Was that due to the creation of the US Copyright office (not sure when
>that was created), or was that an International "thang" pertaining to
>copyrights? It would be interesting to know.

No, it has to do with the duration of copyrights. The problem is that
as soon as Steamboat Willie started to go into the public domain, Disney
petitioned Congress to extend the term of copyrights, and Senator Bono
put through a law that totally screws things up.

It is _possible_ for things after that mark to be in the public domain. And
British copyrights are very strange... most of Kipling's work is still
in copyright, for instance.

There is a copyright FAQ on the web somewhere that explains this in much
more detail than I ever could.
--scott

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