no, Brazilian copyright law also covers life+70.<br><br>I have just mentioned 2020 (10 years after release in 2010) due to the pirate party copyright reform proposal of 5-to-10 years duration (10 years in my TimBurton's "Alice in Wonderland" hypotethical example). <br>
<br>PS: A brazillian copyright reform has been announced by our Culture ministry and will likely happen in 2009/2010. It seems that we will have public hearings beginning next month.<br>Some of our civil society claims will probably be:<br>
<br>* reducing copyright duration to Berns requirements: life+50.<br>* allowing full private copying. Current law (1998) allows only private copying of brief sections (they do not define how much is a brief section. it is totally subjective). Pior-98 copyright law allowed full private copy.<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 1:49 AM, Glenn Kerbein <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:glenn.kerbein@pirate-party.us">glenn.kerbein@pirate-party.us</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Twenty years? Consider your country lucky.<br>
In the states, it's life of the author + 70 years. When "Alice In<br>
Wonderland" (the modern film) enters the public domain, it will be<br>
sometime next century. I guess 2119, assuming that everyone in the film<br>
dies in 2049.<br>
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Felipe Sanches wrote:<br>
> I agree with Richard Stallman when he talks about the duality of<br>
> computer software (compiled binaries versus source code) and its<br>
> problematic treatment in copyright laws: we need to guarantee public<br>
> domain effectiveness for software. We cant simply allow its source code<br>
> to be forever kept as secret while users are subjected to proprietary<br>
> binaries (which are hardly modifiable in a pratical manner) even after<br>
> the binaries have fallen into the public domain. An escrow proposal was<br>
> made by rms but we are still unsure about what would be the best<br>
> approach to solve that issue.<br>
><br>
> I'd like to raise awareness to a similar duality: multimedia<br>
> productions. Wouldnt it make sense for us to seek guarantees that<br>
> production files will be available when a movie falls into public<br>
> domain? It would certainly make derivative creative works easier to<br>
> produce without the need of recreating the whole thing from scratch.<br>
><br>
> Think about the open movies we've seen recently: i. e. "Elephants<br>
> Dream", or "Big Buck Bunny".<br>
> The creators of these movies have voluntarily released their "source<br>
> code". Wouldn't we want to have similar access to the production files<br>
> of Tim Burton's "Alice in Wonderland" in 2020, ten years after the<br>
> release of the movie? Or would we be satisfied with solely a legalized<br>
> high definition public domain copy of it in 2020?<br>
><br>
> Felipe "Juca" Sanches<br>
> Inkscape.org developer / FSF member / Brazilian Pirate Party<br>
><br>
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