Re: Date of First Publication

On Thu, Apr 08, 1999, Stephen Fishman <sfish55[_at_]yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 6 Apr 1999, Paul Sleven <psleven[_at_]cybernex.net> wrote:
> >
> > Under the 1909 Act, is "first publication" for determining
> > copyright duration measured from first publication in the US or
> > anywhere in the world? I had always understood it to be anywhere
> > in the world, but recall seeing some discussion in the past year
> > or two of an argument -- I believe involving a James Joyce work
> > -- that first publication meant first publication in the US.
> > Does anyone remember that?
>
> The 9th Circuit has held that a publication outside the U.S. counts as
> a first publication for U.S. copyright duration purposes only if the
> work contained a copyright notice. This case involved publication of
> the book Bambi in Germany.

So how would the result of that 9th circuit decision play out in relation to the automatic restoration provision of 104A?

David W. Quist
<dquist[_at_]worldnet.att.net> Received on Thu Apr 08 1999 - 12:53:04 GMT