OFF: Willie Dixon Led Zeppelin lawsuit

Dave Berry daveb at HARLEQUIN.CO.UK
Tue Sep 8 04:52:21 EDT 1998


At 09:02 08/09/98 +0100, Stuart A Hamilton wrote:
>Odd?  Are US laws different from UK?  Over here, once you've been dead 50
>years copyright passes into the public domain hence our marvellous paperback
>versions of classic literature at 99p.

FWIW, the it's now 70 years after you die.  The EU states had different
values for this period, and recently they brought them all into line.  With
the most restrictive, natch.

Dave.

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