Re: aede-policy vs. new years

Oh and to duration (do not site me on this since I am not an attorney)
it is life tie + 50 years for individuals and just 50 years for
corporate works

On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 11:43 PM, Aryeh Friedman
<[email protected]> wrote:
> In the US... in the US there are three levels of protection: 1) no
> notice (very hard to enforce), 2) notice but not registered (slight
> better then 1) and 3) notice and registered (the best)  Our attorney
> was saying that an out of date defaults to the no notice one
>
> On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 7:03 PM, Russell Standish
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On Thu, Jan 03, 2013 at 04:45:29AM -0500, Aryeh Friedman wrote:
>>> Just passed that idea by our attorney and he said that we would loose
>>> any protection we had for code written in the new year unless *EVERY*
>>> file (regardless if it was modified or not in the new year) was
>>> updated with the new copyright year
>>
>> That sounds nuts! Which jurisidiction are you in?
>>
>> IIUC, in Australia, copyright is automatically granted once a work is
>> created. The copyright notice merely serves as a convenience notice to
>> a reader of the file to help establish provenance.
>>
>> I thought this would also be true in other jurisdictions.
>>
>> OC, copyright does have an expiry time, so updating the copyright year
>> will increment the expiry time of the copyright, but only for the
>> modified files (any old files will still have the previous copyright
>> term). Also adding an author tag will (in some cases) increment the
>> expiry time by the year of an author's death.
>>
>>
>>
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