Re: Abolishing perpetual copyright in unpublished works

From: Joseph Pietro Riolo <josephpietrojeungriolo[_at_]gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 01 Sep 2006 14:55:30 -0400


On 8/24/06, Wallace J.McLean <ag737[_at_]freenet.carleton.ca> wrote: 

>

> 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 copyright in unpublished works?

France has perpetual moral rights (keep in mind that copyright is not only one right but is a bundle of rights and some of them are called "moral rights") in works regardless of their publication status. This is not exactly what you are looking for but at least, some of the rights do last forever in France. So, if the great-great- great-great-great-great-great-great-grandson of Charles Dickens living in France finds an adaption of _A Christmas Carol_ unacceptable, he can censor it by invoking the moral rights.

Joseph Pietro Riolo
<josephpietrojeungriolo[_at_]gmail.com>

Number of days left until 1-1-2019 when all knowledge of 1923 in the land of the U.S.A. will be freed from their copyright owners' prisons: 4,504

Public domain notice: I put all of my expressions in this post in the public domain. Received on Fri Sep 01 2006 - 22:55:30 GMT

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