Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: > On Nov 1, 2007, at 1:09 PM, Paul Crovella wrote: > >> Use the date of creation of the work - i.e. the year you took the >> picture. > > This reasoning is problematic and/or simplistic. Copyright is a way > of protecting your authored works from illegal reproduction and > establishing ownership. It has nothing to do with when you created a > work, it has everything to do with when you released it for public > consumption. > > If you made a negative in 1963 but didn't print it and offer it to > the public until 2007, and copyrighted it as 1962, the copyright > protections are already expired ... > > Godfrey > >
That's only correct in the US for works created prior to 1964 which did not have their copyright registered & renewed. -Adam -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
