![]() ![]() * There is disgusting clickbait and spam on the new tab page by default, thanks to bundling Pocket's article recommendations. People urging the contrary, at least insofar as they are talking about the United States or governments with similar copyright regimes are dead wrong, and jcranmer and garmaine are right and unfairly downvoted.įor the purposes of this comment, user-hostility means decisions that have negative utility for Firefox users as a whole, while benefiting Mozilla in some way (usually financial). #WATERFOX UPDATE UPDATE#In other words, by creating a derivative work via updating an existing computer program or modifying a website, you absolutely gain a new copyright on any new material and you absolutely can and should update the copyright date under U.S. The new copyright on the derivative work "covers only the additions, changes, or other new material appearing for the first time in the work." * A new version of an existing computer program government source explicitly mentions the following as cases of derivative works which allow for a new copyright: Moreover, under United States law, new editions of a preexisting work are considered "derivative works" and in these cases "the editorial revisions, annotations, elaborations, or other modifications represent, as a whole, an original work." In practice, it could end up really being a lesser-of-all-three situation, but we aren't going to get any case law on this until 2074 at the earliest, since life + 70 doesn't start until 1978. If you read the law carefully, once the fixation/publication threshold is crossed, it is now the burden of proof of the copyright owner to demonstrate that life + 70 hasn't happened yet, and furthermore to demonstrate that the alleged infringer failed to do due diligence to determine the death date of the author. Strictly speaking, life + 70 years actually rules when the author is determined. After that reform, you still keep copyright, but instead you lose out on some ability to recuperate losses, and you give your opponent extra legal ammunition in any copyright infringement cases. ![]() Pre-1976 copyright reform, flubbing the formalities means you lose copyright entirely. If any one of those terms expire, the work moves into the public domain.Īffixing an earlier copyright date affords no advantages. In US copyright law, there are three dates that control copyright: 120 years from creation (first fixation), 95 years from first publication, or life + 70 years. What it actually does is it establishes first publication date. ![]()
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