On Thu, 18 Apr 2013 04:34:57 +0200, clipka wrote:

> 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.

That's interesting, I didn't know that.

Jim

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