AW: Some legal concepts

Dooma® adham_abozaeid at gawab.com
Tue Jan 4 21:04:07 CET 2005


I'm wondering who you can find so many comics on the internet exchanged
freely!!!!!

 

 

 

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> From: dcml-bounces at stp.ling.uu.se [mailto:dcml-bounces at stp.ling.uu.se] On

> Behalf Of le Richard

> Sent: Tuesday, January 04, 2005 8:19 PM

> To: dcml at stp.ling.uu.se

> Subject: Re: AW: Some legal concepts

> 

> Le mardi 4 Janvier 2005 18:29, Cord Wiljes a écrit :

> > Stefan wrote:

> > > Scanning might be legal after 75 years, though.

> >

> > I am planning to still be around when Don Rosa's works enter the public

> > domain. As the early Gottfredson's already have and the Barks' are going

> to

> > when I retire :-)

> 

> That won't work because Disney and other companies will make pressure to

> expand the 75-years limit (like I think they did, several times[?]). And

> even

> if you normally have the right, Disney will sue you if you publish

> anything

> with Disney comics for trademark violation (or something else even if not

> legitimate) [like they once did with an unfortunate publisher?], and you

> won't be able to afford lawyers expenses to fight them in court.

> 

> > Another legal question: Which country's copyright law applys for works

> > created abroad? Let us say a Disney comic is created in Italy by an

> Italian

> > creator for the Italian Disney publisher. Does Italian copyright law

> apply

> > or U.S. copyrigt law?

> 

> My guess is Italian copyright law only. Any U.S. law is irrelevant in a

> European court (or other courts in non-US countries). It matters only in

> very

> special cases, like when a EU country would not extradite someone to the

> US

> because of the death penalty.

> 

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