The fifty year rule was extended to 70 yrs on 1st Jan 1996, and work which
was deemed to has come out of copyright went back in again. So your 61yr
dead author's work is still copyright. Sorry! RC
On Sun, 17 Jan 1999, Jim Bennett wrote:
> Could someone help with some information on copyright.
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> >From when does the 70 year copyright rule start and is it retrospective?
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> If so what happens to a piece of work which falls into that 20 year gap. A
> piece which was out of copyright and is published as such but the author
> died 61 years ago?
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> If I am sounding a little desperate it is because I have had three
> conflicting pieces of information and it may end up costing me a lot of
> money...
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