17th September 2008, 05:49 PM
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Originally Posted by Brown Jenkin  That is true currently. Anything before 1923 is in public domain as all time limits have expired. However anything published from 1923-1963 had to be registered and periodically renewed. If it was not registered in the first place or properly renewed it passed into public domain (That is how allot of those $1 DVDs of old B movies are available). Then from 1964-1977 works still had to be registered and renewed at least one time. It was in 1978 that the current law was enacted and things were automatically copyrighted and no renewals are necessary. | Cool. Thanks.
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