Re: UK copyright

From: SP <73774.2733[_at_]CompuServe.COM>
Date: 30 Apr 96 17:53:31 EDT

Ron B. Thomson wrote:
>
> [re UK copyright]
> Copyright in print materials (author known, etc.) is life-of-author
> plus 70 years. The 70 years change was effective 1 January 1996. For works
> which came into the public domain in the last 20 years because the old
> rule was "life plus 50", their copyright has re-entered private hands
> (under a set of rules to control the change) and continue as if the "life
> plus 70" had always been in place.

Does this mean the work of any British author who died before May 1, 1926 is in the public domain in the UK? Also, how is the protection of posthumous publication handled?

Dan Agin

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