Re: start of copyright period

On 7 Apr 2000, Stephen Fishman <sfish55[_at_]yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 4 Apr 2000, Pat Sloane <patsloane[_at_]aol.com> wrote:
> >
> > I thought I understood the bare basics of copyright, but now I'm
> > confused.
> >
> > An author dies, leaving extensive unpublished material.
> >
> > Fifty years later, the material is finally published, copyrighted by
> > the person who edited the collection. This person has permission to
> > publish the material, but has not contracted to share proceeds of the
> > book with the actual owner of the manuscripts, which might be either
> > an heir of the author or an archives to which the manuscripts were
> > given.
> >
> > When does copyright begin and end?
>
> Copyright in an unpublished work begins when it is created. It
> lasts for the life of the author plus 70 years.

Is it really so simple? I heard it about text and music. But how about photos. If a photographer keeps his negative unpublished and somebody buy it 50 years after his dead, when does the copyright start and end?

Staffan Teste
<teste[_at_]blf.se> Received on Fri May 26 2000 - 21:26:25 GMT