The Shadow is coming up in a couple of years. Conan is up in a few. I think Peter Pan and Poirot were in this batch already, too. Tintin would be due next year, but for all the crap Disney gets, apparently its term is longer because it only starts counting after the author dies.
I remember reading that the UK has assigned a perpetual copyright to Peter Pan because royalties fund a children’s hospital. Maybe it’ll be public domain worldwide but copyrighted in the UK?
Copyright laws are by country. Some countries have treaties to respect each other’s copyrights and some don’t.
So, it is entirely possible to have something considered “public domain” in the USA still be protected in the UK.
…But given the relative economic weight of the two countries, simply banning the export of your locally-infringing Peter Pan/Steamboat Willie slash fic novel would be pretty easy.
Maybe? Copyright is completely broken if you ask me. Right now we seem to operate on a “don’t enforce unless we feel like it” worldwide framework across the board and everything is weird and bad.
The Shadow is coming up in a couple of years. Conan is up in a few. I think Peter Pan and Poirot were in this batch already, too. Tintin would be due next year, but for all the crap Disney gets, apparently its term is longer because it only starts counting after the author dies.
I remember reading that the UK has assigned a perpetual copyright to Peter Pan because royalties fund a children’s hospital. Maybe it’ll be public domain worldwide but copyrighted in the UK?
Copyright laws are by country. Some countries have treaties to respect each other’s copyrights and some don’t.
So, it is entirely possible to have something considered “public domain” in the USA still be protected in the UK.
…But given the relative economic weight of the two countries, simply banning the export of your locally-infringing Peter Pan/Steamboat Willie slash fic novel would be pretty easy.
Maybe? Copyright is completely broken if you ask me. Right now we seem to operate on a “don’t enforce unless we feel like it” worldwide framework across the board and everything is weird and bad.