DMD Copyright string

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Wed Apr 22 06:58:48 PDT 2015


On Wednesday, 22 April 2015 at 07:13:09 UTC, weaselcat wrote:
> On Wednesday, 22 April 2015 at 07:08:05 UTC, Shachar Shemesh 
> wrote:
>> Except, as you pointed out, that's not how copyright now 
>> works. The copyright for DMD would only expire 95 years after 
>> Walter dies, regardless of what the copyright notice says.
>>
>> Shachar
>
> something tells me it will be more than 95 years by the time 
> Walter passes considering Mickey's copyright expires in 8 years 
> : )

It is rather complex in the US... Mickey movies are covered by 95 
years after creation, but D is covered by:

«70 years after the death of author. If a work of corporate 
authorship, 95 years from publication or 120 years from creation, 
whichever expires first»

https://copyright.cornell.edu/resources/publicdomain.cfm


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