File talk:World copyright terms.svg

Jamaican term now life + 95 years

The term in Jamaica has been pushed up to life plus 95 years so the diagram needs updating.^[1] Qirtaiba (talk) — Preceding undated comment was added at 00:58, 17 July 2015 (UTC)

Fixed in the 14:21, 14 March 2022 (UTC) version. ‑‑Yodin^T 21:49, 26 August 2023 (UTC)

Fixing Armenia's term

Armenia's copyright term is actually life+70 years (not 50), so the color needs to be darkened a couple notches. Chaojoker (talk) 19:40, 27 August 2012 (UTC)

Fixed in the 01:20, 2 February 2014 (UTC) version. ‑‑Yodin^T 21:50, 26 August 2023 (UTC)

United states

US now applies as the general rule:

• as the core rule, life + 70 ;
• for corporate authorship, the first year among publication + 95 and creation + 120.

Exceptions could be found on this summary table: Peter B. Hirtle, Copyright Term and the Public Domain in the United States, Cornell Copyright Information Center, Cornell University, 2013.

--Dereckson (talk) 15:28, 27 November 2013 (UTC)

Fixed in the 01:20, 2 February 2014 (UTC) version. ‑‑Yodin^T 21:51, 26 August 2023 (UTC)

Laos law updated in 2012

Laos now has its own ginuwine copyrigt law, which entered into force on January 2012. The general term is life+50 years. -Mardus (talk) 18:42, 30 January 2014 (UTC)

Okay. I'll update the file during the weekend with the above mentioned corrections. Sorry for the delayed response. I've now added this talk page to my watchlist - Badseed ^talk 23:32, 30 January 2014 (UTC)

I updated the file with the following changes:

• Armenia: life + 70
• USA: life +70
• Laos: life + 50
• Added Uzbekistan (life +50)
• Lost USA and "No copyright" from legend
• Moved Russia a little to the left :)
• Updated the wide key and keyless svg too

I removed the inaccuracy tempplates, hope we are OK Now.Any other changes needed, leave comments here. Perhaps I'll also change the colour scheme, not entirely satisfied with this one - Badseed ^talk 01:30, 2 February 2014 (UTC)

Legislation in Spain

Real Decreto Legislativo 1/1996, de 12 de abril, por el que se aprueba el Texto Refundido de la Ley de Propiedad Intelectual, regularizando, aclarando y armonizando las disposiciones legales vigentes sobre la materia: Disposición transitoria cuarta. Autores fallecidos antes del 7 de diciembre de 1987: Los derechos de explotación de las obras creadas por autores fallecidos antes del 7 de diciembre de 1987 tendrán la duración prevista en la Ley de 10 de enero de 1879 sobre Propiedad Intelectual. Ley de 10 de enero de 1879, de la propiedad intelectual: Art. 6º. La propiedad in­telectual corresponde á los autores durante su vida, y se transmite á sus herederos tes­tamentarios ó legatarios por el término de ochenta años. ...

--. HombreDHojalata.^talk 21:12, 13 March 2016 (UTC)

I disagree, the chart should give an overview of the current term of protection (for new works) and not the term of protection given a transitional provision in the local legislation. I propose to revert this change and set Spain to live + 70 as is the state for all new works (after December 7th 1987. --Martsniez (talk) 09:37, 14 March 2016 (UTC)

North America

I think with the new agreement between Mexico-US-Canada, the length is now life+70 years for all three countries. Amqui (talk) 01:10, 6 December 2018 (UTC)

Canada's goes up, but i do not think Mexico's will go down (nor will the americans apply it to pre-1978 works). the wording is something like "for a minimum of...". the game is stacked so that copyright can be made longer, but not shorter. Lx 121 (talk) 09:41, 13 January 2019 (UTC)

South Korea

term is now life +70, apparently; starting a few years ago. possibly related to the free trade deal between sk & usa. the americans have been pushing that in every trade deal they sign, for some time. Lx 121 (talk) 09:41, 13 January 2019 (UTC)

Updated to life +70. ‑‑Yodin^T 13:27, 14 March 2022 (UTC)

Indonesia

Indonesia's copyright protection is not life +70 years, based on |Indonesian Copyright Law no.28/2014 article 58. Please update the current picture. Thank you.

06Ivonne (talk) 04:46, 9 June 2020 (UTC)

@06Ivonne The law you linked to, plus the wikipedia articles on Indonesian copyright law all seem to say that it's life +70 years (or 50 years after publication for Work by legal entities, Anonymous works, Photographic works, Cinematographic works, Derived works, or Collected works). The map is for the copyright term after the life of an author, so life +70 seems right (which the map reflects). Please can you clarify if you think this is wrong. ‑‑Yodin^T 13:31, 14 March 2022 (UTC)

It looks like this was updated to life +70 in December 2020 by Gunarta (WMID). ‑‑Yodin^T 15:47, 14 March 2022 (UTC)

Canada is now life+70

Canada extended copyright to life+70,but it only becomes effective in December 30,2022 Thiago Rodrigues30 (talk) 15:40, 6 December 2022 (UTC)

Thanks @Thiago Rodrigues30. I've made updated versions of this map and File:World copyright-terms nokey.svg with Canada as life +70, and made a note to upload them at the start of 30 December. ‑‑Yodin^T 16:33, 20 December 2022 (UTC)

Niger actually extended to life+70 in 2010

I discovered that Niger enacted a new copyright law in 2010. It non-retroactively extended the copyright term to life+70. Somehow, WIPO Lex has not included the law. VTSGsRock (talk) 02:46, 6 June 2024 (UTC)

Good find @VTSGsRock, I've updated the maps. Have you tried contacting WIPO Lex, to confirm this? ‑‑Yodin^T 03:22, 6 June 2024 (UTC)

Libya is Life+25 and 50 years after publication

I don't know why Libya was kept yellow even though I corrected its term from Life+50 years to Life+25 years and 50 years after publication. Previously, Libya was colored light green, but was changed to yellow to sync with the copyright rules by territory articles. It is alleged that Libya's copyright term is Life+50 years because of it joined the Berne Convention, however it only cincerns foreign works. Even the Libyan copyright term of Life+25 applies to foreign works as well along with all other provisions of the law. Some IP lawyers (and even the US government) allege that the Libyan copyright law is Life+50 years with formalities to deposit the work based on "Law No. 7 of 1984" but a 1984 copyright law in Libya is nonexistent because Law No. 7 of 1984 is a law on depositing binders.

How should we color Libya, now that we know its term is Life+25 years and 50 years after publication, not Life+50 years as alleged? VTSGsRock (talk) 03:35, 6 June 2024 (UTC)

I don't know why Libya was kept yellow even though I corrected its term: looking at COM:LIBYA, you only updated those details in March of this year, and didn't flag up any changes needed to this map until now. When I updated the map in 2022, COM:LIBYA said: Libya is a party to the Berne Copyright law in 1976, which requires life + 50 years copyright length, however the copyright terms in the law conflict with the treaty and have not been updated since.

As for how to update the map: have you come across any other examples of countries that are also x years after publication? Are you reviewing all countries' copyright laws at the moment? If so, have you reviewed all of them yet, or only part way through? ‑‑Yodin^T 04:09, 6 June 2024 (UTC)