Copyright (was PDFs and tapeworm descriptions)

[Stephen C. Carlson]

On Tue, 14 May 2002 10:00:42 -0400 "Susan B. Farmer" <sfarmer at GOLDSWORD.COM> wrote:
>From an earlier edition of their web site I have the following information
>on the duration of copyright.
>
>        1. if the work was published before 1978, the copyright expired
>           75 years from the date of publication *IF* the copyright was
>           renewed -- otherwise the copyright expired in 28 years.

Under the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act, Pub. L.
105-298, Oct. 27, 1998, this 75-year term has now been
extended to 95 years.  See 17 U.S.C. § 304(b).

Stephen Carlson

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