Am 17.04.2013 20:49, schrieb Jim Henderson:

>> IANAL, but the concept of copyright in the American sense does not exist
>> in Germany. Instead, there is a set of author's rights ("Urheberrecht"),
>> and the heirs do get to exercise and benefit from these until so-many
>> years after the author's death (the duration depending on the type of
>> work AFAIK), after which the work passes on into the public domain.
>
> That's pretty much the way it works in the US, too - copyright is for the
> author's life + 70 years IIRC, and the rights are given to the copyright
> holder or the rights assignee (in some cases the publication), and after
> that period lapses, the work passes into the public domain.
>
> I'm not sure what's different between the German definition you gave and
> what I know of the US system (as a copyright holder).

One major difference is that German author's rights can't be sold or 
otherwise transferred to some other person or legal body.

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