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Re: [OM] Copyright explained by the UK Intellectual Property Office

Subject: Re: [OM] Copyright explained by the UK Intellectual Property Office
From: Chuck Norcutt <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 08 Apr 2014 17:41:24 -0400
I didn't read it all but what I did read seems to conform closely with 
my own (limited) understanding of US copyright law.  I expected there 
would be a difference in the lifetime of a copyright but even there (70 
years beyond the copyright holder's death) I believe that to be very 
close to or even match the US time period.

Chuck Norcutt


On 4/8/2014 2:24 PM, Nathan Wajsman wrote:
> The UK IPO is in my opinion one of the best IP offices in the world in terms 
> of their research and outreach. They have recently embarked on a project to 
> publish "copyright notices", or guides to copyright (a very complex issue) 
> for ordinary people, written in understandable language. The first such guide 
> concerns a subject of interest to use here, namely photographs:
>
> http://www.ipo.gov.uk/c-notice-201401.pdf
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> Of course, this is specific to the UK, but much of it applies across the EU 
> and indeed in other common law countries, i.e. the various former colonies.
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> Cheers,
> Nathan
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