Kerry Anderson of the African Legal Information Institute has written about a new project AfricanLII is working on a fascinating new project, the creation of an interface that enables people to do more than simply access primary legal information (statutes, cases) but to comment on it. There are profound possibilities for how laws are made and implemented. Read about a social wrapper for law.
Copyright Terms around the World
Written by Andrew Rens on January 3rd, 2012Balfour Smith at Duke University Law School created this great map showing copyright terms around the world. Take a look at the term in your country. When the copyright term on a work expires the work enters the public domain.
Bear in mind that the map shows the standard term for literary, musical and artistic works. Other terms apply to sound recordings, movies and photographs. The term of a particular work will be affected by a number of other considerations including whether the work was anonymous or pseudonymous, the rule of the shorter term and whether there is a work for hire provision in the applicable copyright law.
The map is up to date for 2010. Click on the map to enlarge.
World Copyright Terms (created by Balfour Smith of Duke University)
