Comments on: Copyright Slider: Quick Easy Access to Copyright Laws and Guidelines

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Sun, 03 Aug 2008 03:10:09 +0000

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By: Jeanne

Jeanne — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 04:05:56 +0000

Dan,

Thanks for reminding me of that page! I especially love the footnotes. Not only do they provide pointers to sources for all the rules listed – but they also give another level of detail and hints for interpreting the rules. Take note 3 for example which reads:

All terms of copyright run through the end of the calendar year in which they would otherwise expire, so a work enters the public domain on the first of the year following the expiration of its copyright term. For example, a book published on 15 March 1923 will enter the public domain on 1 January 2019, not 16 March 2018 (1923+95=2018).

Jeanne

By: Dan Cohen

Dan Cohen — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 12:54:33 +0000

For $5 less why not just print out the nice-looking, kept-up-to-date Cornell web page for this: http://www.copyright.cornell.edu/public_domain/ Also note that it's the "maybes" that are the killers, and no chart can help you there.