[LINK] copyright question

[Richard Chirgwin]

On 4/04/11 3:26 PM, Jan Whitaker wrote:
> At 12:16 PM 4/04/2011, Karl Auer wrote:
>> Having looked at various references people have suggested, my confidence
>> is increasing that 70 years after his death, copyright is no longer
>> there.
> There may be moral rights. I don't think they expire. And I know they
> aren't transferable. Check out that language in the act.
AFAIK and IANAL and all that ... Moral rights expire with the author. 
Here's a summary that will do for the purpose:
http://www.une.edu.au/copyright/moral-rights.php

If the work is attributed to an individual, then the rights have expired.

Now for the IANAL moment: If memory serves, the extensions to copyright 
duration weren't retrospective, that is, if a work had already entered 
the public domain (via the period elapsed since the death of the author) 
they weren't "re-privatised" when later amendments to the Copyright Act 
extended the duration.

For a work by an author who died in 1936, the original expiration of 
copyright was 1986, and unless I'm mistaken, that's where it lies.

RC

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