[pd-discuss] public domain status for Giovanni Federzoni (29/08/1849 - 14/06/1923)

[Peter B. Hirtle]

Ah, good point.  So copyright in the 1935 works would have expired in Italy in 1994, 70 years after Federzoni's death.  Copyright in his works would not have been restored in the U.S. in 1998 because they were in the public domain in Italy.  Since I can't find any evidence in the Copyright Office's database or in Google's scans of the Catalog of Copyright Entries that any of Federzoni's works were separately  registered in the U.S., I think all of his writings must be in the public domain here, too.  

The only exception that might apply would be an unpublished work first published after 1 March 1989, when the U.S. joined the Berne Convention, thus giving the work protection via  Berne, and before 1 January 2003.   Those works would have a copyright term that lasts through 2047.  (Note that an unpublished work first published in 2003 would have received one year of copyright protection, till 2004, and an unpublished work first published in 2004 or later would be in the public domain.  Timing is everything.)

If no unpublished works from Federzoni were first published in that small window (1989-2003), then I think we can conclude that all of his works are in the public domain in the U.S.

Peter
 
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> As far I know, in Italy, for Laws, copyright expires after 70 years after author's
> death, regardless (for works published during author's
> lifetime) to publication date
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> On Mon, 30 May 2011 10:35 -0400, "Peter B. Hirtle" <pbh6 at cornell.edu>
> wrote:
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> > There were several works that I can find in catalogs that were
> > published posthumously (after 1923).  I am assuming that these were
> > still protected by copyright in Italy on 1 Jan. 1998,
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