"Barbara Roden" wrote in message
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The same goes for non-fiction as for fiction: seventy years after the
death
of the author. If you create something - stories, novels, music, articles,
reference books, paintings, cartoons, whatever - copyright in the U.K. and
E.U. is death plus seventy.



The Berne Convention states that duration of copyright is life of the author
plus 50 years, but it allows each member nation to extend that duration.
Most, but not all, of the EU countries have extended that limit to 70 years.


William M. Klimon
http://www.gateofbliss.com