Re: [d@DCC] Movie copyright duration

From: Chris Brand <chris_brand _-at-_ shaw.ca>
To: discuss (at) list.digital-copyright.ca
Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2007 09:22:09 -0700
References: <mailman.1.1184774402.20251.discuss@list.digital-copyright.ca>

Jonathan wrote:
> How long does copyright last on movies in Canada? The act says the
> following:
> =====================
> Except for cinematographic works in which the arrangement or acting form
> or the combination of incidents represented give the work a dramatic
> character, copyright in a cinematographic work or a compilation of
> cinematographic works shall subsist
> 
>     (a) for the remainder of the calendar year of the first publication
> of the cinematographic work or of the compilation, and for a period of
> fifty years following the end of that calendar year; or
> 
>     (b) if the cinematographic work or compilation is not published
> before the expiration of fifty years following the end of the calendar
> year of its making, for the remainder of that calendar year and for a
> period of fifty years following the end of that calendar year.
> 
> ======================

I don't see any mention of the author there, just the year of first publication
and the year of its making.
So it seems to me that the date of expiration is pretty clear, it's who owns
the copyright until it expires that's murky.
That's purely based on what you quoted, though.




Chris

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