Re: S.505 Signed

On Sun, 1 Nov 1998, Larry Urbanski <larryu[_at_]interaccess.com> wrote:
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> On Sat, 31 Oct 1998, Terry Carroll <carroll[_at_]tjc.com> wrote:
> >
> > No. The term extention provision is now in effect -- no 90-day grace
> > period.
>
> So if we are looking for works for hire, for example, works 1922 on down
> are in the public domain. ALL of 1923 are still under copyright?

Not necessarily. If a work was published in 1923, it would have been copyrighted in its first term until the 28th anniversary of its publication in 1951. At that time, if it was not renewed, it went public domain.

Assuming it was renewed, however, yup. Many works originally published in 1922 went PD as of January 1, 1998. We won't see that happen again for any new works until January 1, 2019. That's assuming The Mouse and friends don't manage to lobby up another extension in the next 20 years.

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