Re: copyright and "The Jungle Book"

On Mon, 8 May 2000, Terry Caroll <carroll[_at_]tjc.com> wrote:
>
> Is this accurate?
>
> If I've checked my facts correctly, Kipling's "The Jungle Book"
> was published in 1899.[1] The U.S. copyright statute that would
> have controlled at expiration would have been the 1909 copyright
> act, which provided for a 56-year copyright term (28, plus another
> 28 on renewal). This would have Kipling's copyright expire in
> 1955.[2]
>

[...]
>
> LC Control Number: 07041592
> Type of Material: Book (Print, Microform, Electronic, etc.)
> Brief Description: Kipling, Rudyard, 1865-1936.

This may be true of the US but in Europe, the relevant time is 2007 (70 years after the expiry of the year in which the author died) assuming that the facts quoted in this email are correct. In Australia (and Canada?), it would have expired in 1987 (50 years plus the life of the author).

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