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Worth noting that during the USMCA negotiations under Trump, Canada agreed to extend copyright to life-plus-70 years, up from the current life-plus-50. However
by Pxtl 5y ago
Worth noting that during the USMCA negotiations under Trump, Canada agreed to extend copyright to life-plus-70 years, up from the current life-plus-50. However, Canada has a 2 year deadline (from 1 July 2020) to actually implement the change to life-plus-70.
- maxwell 5y agoSounds like the Doors may slip through.
- Pxtl 5y agoAlbums are weird and backwards in Canada because the actual recordings are 70 years flat (thanks to Randy Bachman of Bachman Turner Overdrive who was about to see his first albums enter public domain and lobbied the gov't to extend it from 50 to 70), but the copyright on the written composition is 50 years after death of author. This strikes me as backwards - like, I feel like there's minimal public interest in getting the specific recording of the performance of the songs into the public domain, while substantial interest in getting the songbook into the public domain so that people can cover it and make derivative works freely. And yet the length of the copyright terms is far stricter on the songbook vs the album, where one is a fixed time from recording while the other adds the lifespan of the author to the mix.