[pd-discuss] PD help

Wed Mar 9 22:02:08 UTC 2011

Wasn't there a recent French court case that said that the European harmonization directive superseded the French extensions for authors who were "mort pour la France"?

Can someone who knows duration in France speak to this?

Peter Hirtle

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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.

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