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0, no copyright. [k] [149] [150] At this stage the Republic of Marshall Islands is not member to any international convention [or treaty] on copyright [151] Instead applies a non-copyright-based protection regime. 0, no copyright. [k] Instead applies a non-copyright-based protection regime. Mauritania: Berne, TRIPS Mauritius: Life + 50 years ...
A public-domain book is a book with no copyright, a book that was created without a license, or a book where its copyrights expired [18] or have been forfeited. [clarification needed] [19] In most countries the term of protection of copyright expires on the first day of January, 70 years after the death of the latest living author. The longest ...
The Feist case denied copyright protection to a "white pages" phone book (a compilation of telephone numbers, listed alphabetically). In making this ruling, the Supreme Court rejected the "sweat of the brow" doctrine. That is, copyright protection requires creativity, and no amount of hard work ("sweat of the brow") can transform a non-creative ...
All works first published or released in the United States before January 1, 1929, have lost their copyright protection 95 years later, effective January 1, 2024. In the same manner, works published in 1929 will enter the public domain as of January 1, 2025, and this cycle will repeat until works published in 1977 enter the public domain on ...
Accordingly, copyright protection did not prevail. The holding in Warner Bros. case came to be known as the Sam Spade Test; this approach does not allow for copyright protection if the character is a “mere chessman in the game of storytelling.” On the other hand, if the character is central to the story, then it will be copyrightable.
The United States copyright website catalogs all the pre-1978 works that have been renewed in 1978 or later. [9] Several pieces of work have been renewed in the form of collections, thus giving the collection as a whole copyright protection.
This accounts for all of the apocryphal Oz books that sprang forth in the 1980s; once more Oz books entered the public domain, it allowed other authors to use those elements in their own works. All of Baum's other works—non-Oz books, plays, and musicals—are also in the public domain, and have been since 1995 at the latest.
In the law of continental European countries, works are required to be original to have copyright protection. According to a 2002 book by professor and lawyer Pascal Kamina, written before the European Court of Justice harmonized the threshold of originality between European Union member countries in 2009, [ 9 ] "it is unlikely, however, that ...
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