Re: Abolishing perpetual copyright in unpublished works

From: Samuel Murray <leuce[_at_]absamail.co.za>
Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2006 15:55:45 -0400


Wallace J.McLean het geskryf:

> Are there other countries, especially in the common-law or European
> tradition, which have done the same or similar? Or others which have,
> deliberately or through inaction, enacted or retained perpetual
> copyright in unpublished works?

In ZA, the copyright of an unpublished work expires 50 years of the the death of the author. AFAIK this rule applies to all works past and present.

Samuel Received on Mon Aug 28 2006 - 23:55:45 GMT

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