Re: copyright question

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On 27-Aug-10 23:39, Trevor Cunningham wrote:
Just curious (and pardon my ignorance), wouldn't the image be
grandfathered under the laws from when the image was originally produced?

Not in general.

And since the 1976 law (taking effect 1/1/1978) was a big increase in rights for the copyright holder, they specifically wrote it so that it pulled anything then in copyright into the new regime.

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