4 ms·

The Berne convention doesn't go beyond lifetime + 50 years.

• lern_too_spel 7y ago
  The Berne convention means that the US must respect copyrights held by authors in other countries according to the copyright laws in those other countries. If authors in other countries get longer copyright protection, their works can be monetized longer, leading to a trade imbalance in IP. Countries with laws that offer shorter copyright protection will be incentivized to increase the duration of copyright protection as a result.
  • incompatible 7y ago
    No, I believe it means that the US must protect copyrights of qualifying foreign works under its own laws. This is lex loci protectionis. A foreign work may even be expired in its own country, but still protected in the US if the US provides longer terms. The US doesn't actually have to do that, but it hasn't implemented the "rule of the shorter term".
    • lern_too_spel 7y ago
      You are right. I misread it. These works that have recently entered the public domain in the US have already been in the public domain in some other countries.
      • incompatible 7y ago
        And the other way around: Thomas Mann’s The Magic Mountain is given as an example of a work that's now public domain under US law, but Mann died in 1955 and his works are copyrighted in the EU until 1 Jan, 2026.