[pd-discuss] PD help

[Alberto Cerda]

Just last May, Chile rejected an old law, according to which if, by the time
of finishing the term of protection (life plus 70), the right holder of the
copyright were the widow of the author or one of his single daughters, the
term was extended to cover the whole life of that woman. It was a kind of
gender protection clause, but a very odd, because it forced to face real
archeological work in order to determine whether a given work was in the
public domain. But, that legal clause is over.

Also, someone told me long time ago that some countries in the West of
Europe restated the copyright of some authors after the end of the Cold War.
Is that true?

A.


On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 5:56 PM, Andrew Gray <andrew.gray at dunelm.org.uk>wrote:

> On 8 March 2011 22:29, Alberto Cerda <alberto at derechosdigitales.org>
> wrote:
> > Mmmm.... I think the Mexican copyright law provides protection to
> copyright
> > holder for the author's life plus 100 years. To my knowledge, that is the
> > longest term, but, unfortunately, I do not know since when that terms
> apply.
>
> There's an interesting detail in French law which provides that any
> author killed in wartime is given a thirty-year copyright extension,
> at least since 1914 or so. (It is apparently a bit variable in detail,
> thanks to EU harmonization, but there's definitely some potential for
> life+up-to-100 cases).
>
> http://www.celog.fr/cpi/lv1_tt2.htm (Art. L.123-10)
>
> I'm not aware of any other country which has a similar provision, but
> it's quite possible there are some.
>
> --
> - Andrew Gray
>   andrew.gray at dunelm.org.uk
>
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