Re: Copyright extension
- From: Joseph Pietro Riolo <riolo@[redacted]>
- Subject: Re: Copyright extension
- Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2001 19:44:41 -0400 (EDT)
On Wed, 18 Jul 2001, John Mark Ockerbloom <ockerblo@[redacted]> wrote:
> I'm not aware of any cases where this has actually happened, though,
> for books whose copyrights have expired in the jurisdiction of the website.
Neither do I. It is still too new to tell how the Internet
will interact with the copyright laws and the public domain works
in the world. The point that I want to express is that one should
not be careless about putting the public domain works on the web.
It is better to be educated and well prepared about the possible
risks (the risk of being sued in a foreign country where works
are still under copyright and the risk of traveling to that country
- there are two more things which are trademark and publicity rights
which are discussed in Chapter 20 in Attorney Stephen Fishman's
book _The Public Domain_).
Joseph Pietro Riolo
<riolo@[redacted]>