Re: S.505 Signed

From: Laura N. Gasaway <unclng[_at_]email.unc.edu>
Date: Wed, 4 Nov 1998 09:28:55 -0500 (Eastern Standard Time)

On Mon, 2 Nov 1998, Tyler Ochoa <tochoa[_at_]law.whittier.edu> wrote:
>
> On 11/01/98, Larry Urbanski <larryu[_at_]interaccess.com> wrote:
> >
> > 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?
>
> All works first published in 1922 or earlier are in the public domain
> in the U.S. ALL works first published in 1923 or later are POTENTIALLY
> still under copyright in the U.S. [Need to know if the author/publisher
> complied with the relevant formalities at the time of publication, and
> the copyright was renewed.] The analysis is not limited to works made
> for hire, because "life plus X years" duration applies only to works
> created on or after January 1, 1978.

      For those of you interested in the term extension issues, I have updated the When Works Pass Into the Public Domain chart.

      http://www.unc.edu/~unclng/public-d.htm

Lolly

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