tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4513524515428334509.post3505678112872533173..comments2024-03-26T10:41:35.852+00:00Comments on The 1709 Blog: They died in 1942 -- 6: Frank Churchill Marie-Andree Weisshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17125973798789498436noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4513524515428334509.post-80070386228426452882014-10-07T21:58:21.690+01:002014-10-07T21:58:21.690+01:00Frank Churchill is realted to all the Churchills! ...Frank Churchill is realted to all the Churchills! For example, the hero, "Uncle" Alan Burton Hall!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4513524515428334509.post-63182190001414723662012-12-30T13:34:07.655+00:002012-12-30T13:34:07.655+00:00Many thanks for your profiles, Miriam. Although yo...Many thanks for your profiles, Miriam. Although you don't claim that it is the case with Frank Churchill, the premise for this series is that the applicable copyright term is the author's year of death plus 70 years. However as most 1709 readers will know this simple formula can't always be applied in the US to works made there.<br />Assuming that Disney registered the copyright in Frank's work and renewed the registration before the first period had elapsed, his works would have had a maximum term of 56 years from the creation date. So apart from his earliest works (1930-1932) his work would still have been in copyright in 1988 when the Copyright Term Extension Act provided that all such existing works would remain in copyright until 2019. The fact that this Act is also known as the Mickey Mouse Protection Act gives a clue to the likelihood that the Disney Corporation did in fact observe the registration formalities, although this was not always the case (vide the <a href="http://www.public.asu.edu/~dkarjala/publicdomain/Vanpelt-s99.html" rel="nofollow">Steamboat Willie case</a>). And of course for present day employees of Disney, their work receives protection for the shorter of either 120 years from creation or 95 years from first publication, thanks to the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_authorship#Copyright_duration" rel="nofollow">1976 Copyright Act</a>. Andy Jnoreply@blogger.com