[Frameworks] this guy's youtube channel has copyrighted experimental film work on it, who is this guy????

[Brian Frye]

Actually, it is generally life of the author plus 70 years, except in case
of works made for hire, in which case it is generally 95 years from
publication.  For better or worse.

"The law automatically protects a work that is created and fixed in a
tangible medium of expression on or after January 1, 1978, from the moment
of its creation and gives it a term lasting for the author’s life plus an
additional 70 years. For a “joint work prepared by two or more authors who
did not work for hire,” the term lasts for 70 years after the last surviving
author’s death. For
works made for hire and anonymous and pseudonymous works, the duration of
copyright is 95 years from first publication or 120 years from
creation, whichever is shorter (unless the author’s identity is later
revealed in Copyright Office records, in which case the term becomes the
author’s life plus 70 years)."

http://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ15a.pdf or see 17 usc section 301 et seq.

BLF

On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 7:10 PM, Matt Helme <dcinema2134 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Is it really 95 years after the authors death? I have not kept up with this
> issue for a while.
>
> Matt
>
> http://www.youtube.com/user/oscarthepug1234 http://www.matthelme.webs.com/
>
> --- On *Fri, 7/15/11, Fred Camper <f at fredcamper.com>* wrote:
>
>
> From: Fred Camper <f at fredcamper.com>
>
> Subject: Re: [Frameworks] this guy's youtube channel has copyrighted
> experimental film work on it, who is this guy????
> To: "Experimental Film Discussion List" <frameworks at jonasmekasfilms.com>
> Date: Friday, July 15, 2011, 5:16 PM
>
>
> David is right. This is a "dog bites man" story; nothing new. Look for
> copyrighted songs on youtube too. And he's right that our current
> copyright laws are absurd. If the Supreme Court consisted of honest
> justices rather than corporation-worshipping, er, looking for a good
> curse word, let's say, REPUBLICANS, they would have found the
> Disney-motivated extension of copyright to 95 years after the author's
> death to be unconstitutional -- the constitution does authorize
> "limited" times. I don't know if we have to go back to 28 years though
> -- life of the author seems good, or life of the author plus 20 even.
>
> If the work is copyrighted and the copyright owner protests, I believe
> youtube takes it down. No one can keep up with youtube and all the
> other sites though.
>
> The dropoff should also be no surprise. A lot of people sample things
> and don't finish them. Nothing wrong with that, really.
>
> Fred Camper
> Chicago
>
>
>
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