War Of The Worlds

`
Invert -

I looked around a bit for something on this myself, but all I could find was a couple of references to something called the Wells Literary Estate, and mention that the copyright for War of the Worlds had recently expired.

Fits with the 50-year limit... but I don't know how long that time frame has been in effect.

.

 

Log in or Sign up to hide all adverts.

Ok. Did some digging and I found this:

So, the question is what is the state of the law in 1898 when the book was written and/or how does the law deal with books already written.

But, regardless of what is stated in this law, the US didn't become a member of this convention until 1988. Weird, huh?

I suspect that copyright for the book was not an issue in 1953. The US law at the time had an initial term of 28 years with a possible 28 year extension after that. From the date of publication, not death of the author.

Edit: Almost forgot.
Link: http://arl.cni.org/info/frn/copy/timeline.html

 

Log in or Sign up to hide all adverts.

We also have the 45 million pound cgi movie, that will be based on Jeff Waynes musical.

Not only that, there will be over 250 merchandise items released for Jeff Waynes version too!

 

Log in or Sign up to hide all adverts.