Re: [seul-edu] [Fwd: Debian-kids goals (draft)]: cartoon characters

[Ray Olszewski <ray@comarre.com>]

It's complicated. For an overview, take a look at the copyright guidelines
of Project Gutenberg, at URL

        http://promo.net/pg/vol/pd.html

They also give this shorter mini-overview: "We cannot publish any texts
still in copyright. This generally means that our texts are taken from books
published pre-1923. (It's more complicated than that, as our Copyright Page
explains, but 1923 is a good first rule-of-thumb for the U.S.A.)"

For more detail, and for the international complications, we will need an
attorney's guidence (I am not one). 


At 01:01 AM 2/17/00 +0000, Justin Zeigler wrote:
>Dan Kolb wrote:
>
>> As far as I'm aware, copyright expires 50 years after the death of the
>> author. This (I'm almost sure) applies equally well to music, art and
>> literature.
>
>um, I aqm not sure but I am positive that here in the US it is 75 years
>and that lobbying groups are pushing for 95 years. are there any lawyers
>in the list who have a clue on this?
>
>
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