[Wikipedia-l] Fair use examples

Sat Nov 9 01:25:50 UTC 2002

Axel Boldt wrote:

>--- Tom Parmenter <tompar at world.std.com> wrote:
>
>>For poetry fair use:
>>[[William Butler Yeats]] quotes 8 out of 22 lines from the poem, "The
>>Second Coming", which was first published in 1922, but surely has a
>>later copyright due to republication in collected works, etc. 
>>
>No, if it was first published in 1922, then it's in the public domain
>period. Later republications of the identical poem don't extend the
>copyright (otherwise, that would be a loophole to drive a truck
>through). 
>

Imran may be right on this.  Yeats died in 1939, so the life + 70 of UK 
law should apply unless there was something in that law to prevent 
retroactivity of the law, in which case it would be life + 50 and all of 
Yeats works would be in the public domain.  See [[Copyright case law]] 
where it was ruled that ownership goes by the law of the copyright 
owner's country.

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