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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;calcol, post: 3093238, member: 77639&quot;]Copyrights expire when the creator dies plus 70 years (up to 120 years total in some circumstances).&nbsp; Copyright duration keeps getting extended by Congress thanks to Hollywood.&nbsp; OMG, the copyright on Gone with the Wind&nbsp; and Wizard of Oz is about to expire!&nbsp; Shovel some more money into congressional campaigns and get the copyrights extended.&nbsp; Happened multiple times between 1962-1974, again in 1976, and yet again in 1998.</p><p><br /></p><p>You can make a discovery that will improve folks lives ... vaccines, drugs, MRI, electronics, etc.&nbsp; ... and you get only a 20 year patent.&nbsp; But the crappiest work of art (painting, image, movie, text, tune, etc.) gets protected for 70 years or longer, no questions asked.</p><p><br /></p><p>It will be interesting to see how things develop with the web.&nbsp; Probably most of the personal pictures and videos on the web, and there are billions, won&#039;t have a provable or traceable origin in a decade or two.&nbsp; Copyright duration varies by country, with the US having the longest.&nbsp; So if the copyright on an image has expired in Asia, but not the US, can it be put on a server there and be accessed here without successful legal recourse?</p><p><br /></p><p>Cal[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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