[cc-community] [CCi] Collaboration for public domain flowcharts

Gisle Hannemyr gisle at ifi.uio.no
Wed Apr 1 16:06:24 EDT 2009


Andy Kaplan-Myrth wrote:
> Gisle Hannemyr wrote:
>> Andy Kaplan-Myrth wrote:

>>> One way might be to pare down the Canadian flowchart to a
>>> basic template that will serve as a starting point for other
>>> countries.

>> I think a general problem with the Canadian PD flowchart, and other
>> similar effort originating on the American continent, are that they
>> only address economic rights and seem to ignore moral rights.

> I don't see that as a problem -- where there are moral rights in
> Canada, they run for the same term as the economic rights. Remember,
> this flowchart is not supposed to help figure out the *scope* of
> copyright in a work, just the *term*.

That's nice.
But what if they do not coincide?

In Norway, moral rights are perpetual, they never expire.
So the Norwegian flowchart for when a work enters the public domain
is very simple: It will never happen.

On the other hand, economic rights expire (in most cases) 70 years
after the death of the longest living author. As a consequence, I find
that knowing the date when economic rights expire for a work more
relevant than the non-existing "public domain" datum.
-- 
Gisle Hannemyr ( http://hannemyr.com/ )



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