[LINK] copyright question for you

[Kim Holburn]

Hi Linkers,

I have a strange copyright question for those of you that might know.  Someone wants to publish writings of someone who died in 1927 with no descendants.  Some of her work was published in 1985 and some is yet unpublished.  

As I understand it, (and IANAL) copyright starts from the moment a work is published, but it belongs to the author or the author's descendants.  Does this apply even if the author died so long ago and what happens if the author had no descendants?

Also this author is Australian and lived in Australia.  Now if her work is going to be published in the UK how does that change things?


Kim


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