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

Wed Dec 21 16:03:31 UTC 2011

UK jurisdiction, but thanks for the offer.

On 21 December 2011 15:41, Townsend Gard, Elizabeth <townsend at tulane.edu> wrote:
> What jurisdiction?  I can help you w US law.
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> 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 unpublished until the 1 August 1989?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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