[pd-discuss] Public Domain Calculator - James Bond books

Wed Dec 21 15:41:36 UTC 2011

What jurisdiction?  I can help you w US law.  

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On Dec 21, 2011, at 4:50 AM, "Becky Hogge" <becky.hogge at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi
> 
> I'm writing to this list because I think it is where the people behind
> public domain calculator project
> (http://outofcopyright.eu/calculator.html) hang out. Please let me
> know if there's a better place to write to.
> 
> Firstly, I think the public domain calculator is a great project.
> Thanks for building it :)
> 
> I thought I'd use it to work out the copyright status of Ian Fleming's
> James Bond books. The question I really had problems with was this
> one:
> 
> Is the work a literary, dramatic or musical work, an engraving or a
> photograph whose author died before 1 January 1969 and which remained
> unpublished until the 1 August 1989?
> 
> I found this hard to parse. Ian Fleming died before 1969, but the work
> was published before 1989, so I answered "no" the first time, and this
> returned a result that the work is in the public domain (or rather
> "The examined rights have expired"), which I don't think can be true
> (Ian Fleming died in 1964, which is only 47 years ago. Under the terms
> of the 1995 Copyright regulations, which according to Wikipedia
> granted extended copyright terms to all authors who died after 1925,
> Fleming enjoys life plus seventy). When I answered "yes" the second
> time I tried, I got the result I expected - that the work was still
> protected.
> 
> Can anyone help me understand what's going on? Am I simply
> understanding the question wrong?
> 
> Also, as a usability side note, I found the way the yes/no buttons
> switched around really confusing.
> 
> Thanks in advance, warm wishes
> 
> Becky
> 
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