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FourWinds F
FourWinds Nov 14, 2005 07:10:59
Replying to Ishmael

60, 70, 75? Odd isn't it. No one seems to know. I was told (quite officially) that the period is 50 years after publication of the authors death, whichever comes last.

F FourWinds
FourWinds Nov 14, 2005 07:14:03
Replying to FourWinds

But ... JM Barrie died in 1937 and Peter Pan enters the public domain very shortly it must be 70 years in the UK.

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PeterH Nov 14, 2005 08:39:20
Replying to FourWinds

Writers and Artists Yearbook states "Copyright in the European Union lasts for the lifetime of the author and for a further 70 years from the end of the year of death....In most other countries of the world copyright exists similarly for the lifetime and for either 50 years or 70 years after the death or posthumous publication."