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The Public Domain in the UK and Other Countries
by Tony Laidig 
http://www.publicdomainblog.com The copyright laws vary from country to country, so space will not permit me to share allthe copyright scenarios for each country around the world. I would highly recommendthat you familiarize yourself with the copyright laws that govern intellectual propertyrights in your own country. While I am not a copyright attorney who can help younavigate through the tangled, and sometimes, confusing web of international copyrightlaw, I will share with you what I’ve learned and understand to be true. As an example, I’llshare how this usage of Public Domain works from the United States would be viewedin the UK, and how the copyright laws of the UK affect its own works (books,photographs, films, audios, etc.).In the UK, the copyright laws work differently than those in the United States. Thegeneral rule of thumb concerning copyright for literary works is that the copyrightexpires 70 years after the death of the author or creator of the work. So if a work waspublished in 1930 in the UK, and the author died in 1934, the work would have passedinto the Public Domain in the UK in 2004. However if the author of the same work didnot die until 1948, the work would not pass into the Public Domain until 2018. There aresome exceptions, such as, when more than one person is listed as author or creator ofthe work. In that case, the length of the copyright is determined as 70 years after thedeath of the longest lived of those individuals. So if a work was written by two authorswho collaborated together, and one author died in 1934 and the other died in 1948, thecopyright would remain in effect until 2018, seventy years from the death of theremaining author.There is an excellent guide online that has been compiling the names of authors andtheir works who died in each year since 1700. This guide currently catalogs over113,000 authors, and can be used to determine whose copyrights expire(d) each New
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