[talk-au] Adelaide out of copyright street directory

[Stephen Hope]

> On Mon, 2009-01-19 at 16:23 +1100, Patrick Jordan wrote:
>> This is fairly definitive:
>>    http://www.copyright.org.au/pdf/acc/infosheets_pdf/G090.pdf/view?searchterm=maps
>> maps remain in copyright until 70 years after the creator's death.

Actually, it's more complex than that. That is what occurs if you
create something today. But the terms were extended because of AUSFTA
on 1 Jan 2005.  Before that it was 50 years, and if the copyright ran
out before the extension, then it stays out of copyright, it doesn't
go back into copyright again. If, however the copyright still applied
at that date, then it got extended.

Also- works for hire are owned by the client involved, not the creator
(again, this is more complex now, but these rules only changed
recently and didn't backdate). If that is a business, not a person,
then the death date doesn't apply, it goes from date of publication.

2009/1/19 Jack Burton <jack at saosce.com.au>:
>
> Umm, doesn't that mean that the 1940 vintage street directory that
> originally started this thread is still under copyright?

No - because copyright would be owned by a business, it would be from
date of publication, which means copy right for a 1940 Gregory ran out
in 31 Dec 1990 (+50 years).  Once it's gone, it stays gone. So any
Gregory up until 1954 would be fine.  After that, they got extended to
a 70 year limit, so a 1955 one won't be PD until after 2025 (unless
they extend the limit again before then).

Stephen