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Is an image published in a book in Australia in 1925 public domain in the US?
I want to use an art image that was published in Australia in 1925 and publish it in the US.
Australian copyright law states that the image is protected for 70 years after the artist's death, who died ...
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How to determine which national copyright legislation applies if I put someone else's work online? [duplicate]
Suppose there is a work by author A, whose copyright expires tomorrow (i.e. it goes into public domain) in their country of birth C1. I upload it (tomorrow) online on a blogging site by a company E ...
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Are commercially published British fashion plates from early 1800s in Britain in public domain in USA?
I'm designing a deck of card that will incorporate many British fashion plates from roughly 1790 to 1825. The magazines in which they were published have gone out of business long ago.
I am working ...
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Are works created by US government employees in the performance of their duties treated as public domain outside the US?
Copyright protection under this title is not available for any work of the United States Government, but the United States Government is not precluded from receiving and holding copyrights transferred ...
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Is the Scarborough Fair Melody Really in the Public Domain?
According to Wikimedia Commons:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Scarborough-Fair-Melody.png
the melody to the tune Scarborough Fair (which had been popularized in the 1960s by Simon and ...
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Are Gutenberg books illegal to sell in Germany or any non-US countries?
I am building an eBook reading service (paid) and I aim to distribute free classics available on Gutenberg Project. (at least for the start)
I have gone through all Gutenberg terms which allows me to ...
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Does public domain have international limits?
I've read that the length of time required for a copyright to expire can vary from country to country. If a country were to hypothetically set the length of time for a copyright to expire (and thus ...
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Can a work copyrighted in the USA enter the public domain sooner in another country?
The duration of copyright in the US is the lifetime of the author plus 60 years. But in Uruguay it is life plus 50 years.
Does that mean the work is in the public domain in Uruguay after 50 years?
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What is meant by 'place of first publication'?
I am currently trying to get my head around the various Laws and Regulations, surrounding Copyright and Public Domain, when it comes to Literature.
My initial question opens the discussion, where ...
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What happens if a piece of Literature falls within the Public Domain in one Territory but is Copyrighted within another Territory?
I am considering the use of some literature, for use on products on an e-commerce site. For the most part, the literature is classified as being in the public domain. Thus, free of copyright.
For a ...
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