I too am puzzled by this. The book was published in the UK, and the author
dies within the last five years (I remember his OM collection being sold
off!).
http://www.copyrightservice.co.uk/copyright/p01_uk_copyright_law advises as
follows:
The 1988 Copyright, Designs and Patents Act states the duration as:
1. For literary, dramatic, musical or artistic works
70 years from the end of the calendar year in which the last remaining
author of the work dies.
Maybe Frank has a dispensation from the publishers?
--
Piers
-----Original Message-----
From: olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Chuck Norcutt
Sent: 19 February 2007 13:18
To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [OM] Re: The OM Way digital
Why is it that copyrights are no longer involved? It seems a very short
time for copyrights to have expired... at least by US standards.
But I would be interested in a factory produced CD which would have a life
beyond 1-3 years.
Chuck Norcutt
Frank.van@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> I forgot something in my earlier message.
>
> I am finishing a project started three years ago (and rested
> hibernating almost as long for health reasons) to make the Olympus OM
> Bible 'The Olympus OM Way' (by LA Mannheim) available in searchable
> pdf-form.
> It seems that there are no longer copy-rights involved. Would there be
> enough interest to have the resulting CD made in a factory rather than
> burning CD-ROMs?
>
> Frank van Lindert
> Utrecht - Holland.
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