On Jan 28, 5:48�pm, "Dee Flint" wrote:
"John Smith I" wrote in ...





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Len:

I believe that they MUST APPLY to have that copyright lengthened, it does
not automatically occur (and, on or before a certain day the work will
expire copyright)--you'd be surprised how many works still fail that.
Although, some publishing houses are set up to "automatically apply", even
though they had no interest in the work they end up gaining possession of
the copyright!

Individuals/corps make a living though such "questionable practices."

Regards,
JSUnder the current laws there is no renewal. *The max copyright length
applies automatically. *The renewal requirement was dropped a long time ago.
Anything that fell out of copyright (i.e. was not renewed) before that
change occurred went into the public domain and stayed there (there are a
few exceptions but it gets too complicated). *Those that were still under
copyright at the time of the change had their copyrights automatically
extended to the max length.

Thank you, Dee...you must have gone to
www.copyrights.gov and looked at Circulars
15A and 15T, yes? :-)

LA