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Authored by: hardmath on Monday, October 22 2012 @ 11:31 AM EDT |
As a general rule works created after 1978 will enjoy
protection for the life
of the author plus 70 years under
US
law.
Here the problem is
Einstein
died in
1955.
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Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, October 22 2012 @ 11:49 AM EDT |
© is 70 years.
A maximum duration of 50 years appropriately
reflects the balance between
meaningful enforcement of the right of publicity
after a famous individual’s death and the
public’s interest in free expression.
It aligns with the majority of current state statutes
limiting the right’s
postmortem duration. And it approximates the period evidently
contemplated by
the Presley court—the one court in New Jersey to have discussed
the
duration of the right—when it encouraged that state’s legislature to
consider the issue
with guidance from the then-current Copyright Act. [page 15
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