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| − | + | Documents published in the United States before January 1st, 1964 with a copyright, but whose copyright was not renewed, are in the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_domain public domain] in that nation.<REF> [http://www.copyright.cornell.edu/training/Hirtle_Public_Domain.htm Copyright Term and the Public Domain in the United States, 1 January 2007], by Peter B. Hirtle. </REF> | |
| − | They should be in public domain | + | They should also be in the public domain in the European Union, where the "shorter term" rule applies to foreign works and where foreign documents which are already in the public domain in their home country are not further protected.<REF> [http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=CELEX:31993L0098:EN:HTML Council Directive 93/98/EEC of 29 October 1993 harmonizing the term of protection of copyright and certain related rights], art.7. </REF> |
| − | + | Copyright registration for these documents had to be renewed during the 28th year of their first term of copyright in order to maintain copyright for a full 95-year term. It is extremely unlikely that this was done for catalogues or documentations published by commercial companies during the period, and therefore these can now be considered to be in the public domain.<!-- If this interpretation was wrong, probably the publication of this advertising material in Camera-wiki would anyway fall under fair use as concerns the US legislation anyway, but uploading these documents from within the European Union would be illegal.--> | |
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Latest revision as of 14:04, 24 March 2011
Documents published in the United States before January 1st, 1964 with a copyright, but whose copyright was not renewed, are in the public domain in that nation.[1]
They should also be in the public domain in the European Union, where the "shorter term" rule applies to foreign works and where foreign documents which are already in the public domain in their home country are not further protected.[2]
Copyright registration for these documents had to be renewed during the 28th year of their first term of copyright in order to maintain copyright for a full 95-year term. It is extremely unlikely that this was done for catalogues or documentations published by commercial companies during the period, and therefore these can now be considered to be in the public domain.
