Re: Re: Abolishing perpetual copyright in unpublished works

From: Samuel Murray <leuce[_at_]absamail.co.za>
Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2006 11:45:31 -0400

Wallace J.McLean het geskryf:

> From: Samuel Murray <leuce[_at_]absamail.co.za>

>> In ZA, the copyright of an unpublished work expires 50 years of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.

> On second thought, is this accurate?

The statute you quoted would be the one I would quote to substantiate my opinion, and being not a lawyer myself I've never considered or thought of interpreting it as you had.

So here's a question, then... to whom does the copyright belong if the copyright is perpetual? Say an unpublished journal is discovered from a guy who died 400 years ago... whose permission is required to publish it? Or can it not be published at all?

Samuel Received on Tue Aug 29 2006 - 19:45:31 GMT

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