tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12886811.post1674469429485209804..comments2024-03-06T19:01:26.120-08:00Comments on Durova: Countering systemic biasLise Broerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15087397520904837725noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12886811.post-13071647480281156812008-06-19T08:21:00.000-07:002008-06-19T08:21:00.000-07:00Wow, apparently, until a Copyright Act was passed ...Wow, apparently, until a <A HREF="http://www.cerlalc.org/derechoenlinea/dar/leyes_reglamentos/Cuba/Ley_14.htm" REL="nofollow">Copyright Act</A> was passed in 1977, Spanish 1879 law on Intellectual Property was in force (well, according to <A HREF="http://www.culturarecreacionydeporte.gov.co/foroderechosculturales/descargas/UNESCO02.pdf" REL="nofollow">this</A> (also in Spanish), Cuba signed a number of international conventions on Intellectual Property, but I don't know whether it affected the provisos in the Spanish law. <BR/><BR/>The problem is that the only available copy of the Copyright Act in the web states that it was modified in 1994 (that is, what we see is the 1994 update of the 1977 act, so that we don't know which the original provisos in the 1977 act was).<BR/><BR/>Anyway, it states (art. 43) a life+50 years copyright length (with the proviso that the 50 year time start to count from the January 1st of the year following to the author's death). If the author is unknown or the work has been written down with pseudonimous, it's 50 years from first publication (art. 45). With regard to photographs, it states 25 years from first "use" (it also applies to "applied arts works", art. 47). Unfortunately, IANAL, and I cannot interpret the proviso on art. 49. It states that once the work has entered the public domain, "the user must pay an special contribution that will be used for the development of the Science, the Education and the Culture of the country" ("el usuario deberá abonar una contribución especial que será utilizada para el desarrollo de la ciencia, la educación y la cultura del país"). Fee will be set by the Ministry of Culture. Very strange, indeed.<BR/><BR/> // ecemaml (administrator at commons and es.wikipedia)Ecemamlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14931897366263031863noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12886811.post-54495919129426292552008-06-15T20:06:00.000-07:002008-06-15T20:06:00.000-07:00Thank you for the clarification.So does that mean ...Thank you for the clarification.<BR/><BR/>So does that mean some material by artists who lived until the 1950s is public domain? That could be very helpful. )Lise Broerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15087397520904837725noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12886811.post-82946632165089020982008-06-15T19:57:00.000-07:002008-06-15T19:57:00.000-07:00Your summary of Australian copyright law is not qu...Your summary of Australian copyright law is not quite complete. Up until 2005 Australia only had a life+50 copyright length. Things that were in the public domain then didn't leap back into copyright because of the Free Trade Agreement. But things still under copyright did get an extra 20 years on their copyright life.<BR/><BR/>So the nurse image entered the public domain in 1985. But either way, the good thing is it's still PD :)pfctdayelisehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16930652936935871532noreply@blogger.com