aTypical Joe: a gay New Yorker living in the rural South

Saturday, November 17, 2007

Copyright Charts

Cornell’s Copyright Term and the Public Domain in the United States is a terrific reference:

This chart was first published in Peter B. Hirtle, “Recent Changes To The Copyright Law: Copyright Term Extension,” Archival Outlook, January/February 1999. This version is current as of 1 January 2007. The most recent version is found [here].

The chart is based in part on Laura N. Gasaway’s chart, “When Works Pass Into the Public Domain,” [found here], and similar charts found in Marie C. Malaro, A Legal Primer On Managing Museum Collections (Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1998): 155-156.

A useful copyright duration chart by Mary Minow, organized by year, is found [here]. A “flow chart” for copyright duration is found [here].

See also Library of Congress Copyright Office. Circular 15a, Duration of Copyright: Provisions of the Law Dealing with the Length of Copyright Protection (Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, 2004) [here].