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> still wish to try to extend their copyrights, claiming a new term every year, which pushes the expiration date out one more year every year. Isn’t the expira
by bazoom42 4y ago
> still wish to try to extend their copyrights, claiming a new term every year, which pushes the expiration date out one more year every year.
Isn’t the expiration date counting from the death of the author rater than the time of creating?
- dahart 4y agoGood question! The term length for work for hire (as well as anonymous & pseudonymous work) starts at time of creation, at least under both the Berne convention and US copyright law. Individual works (i.e., something you made for yourself and not for a company) do expire some time after the author’s death.
- michael1999 4y agoWork-for-hire copyright is owned by the company, and they don't die natural deaths.