This made the total duration of copyright for these works 95 years.

The duration of copyright was much shorter than customary in the West.

The American legal system has colluded in this process by extending the duration of copyrights.

That there was limited justification for contemporary expansions in the scope and duration of copyright.

Of course the government has made this more complicated by essentially extending the duration of copyright forever.

Duration of copyright depends upon the type of work and is usually calculated as a period following the creator's death.

It has also stirred up criticisms about the duration of copyright laws, which Congress has extended several times in recent years.

Once the right to be identified has been asserted, it applies for the duration of copyright, but only for works created after 1 August 1989.

The duration of copyright in the following types of work continued to be governed by the 1956 Act:

They have already been fighting publishers in a suit asking the Supreme Court to shorten the duration of copyright.

The length of duration of copyright is 50 years after the author's death, or the publication of an anonymous work.

This binding directive, which became effective on July 1, 1995, has raised the duration of copyrights throughout the union to 70 years p.m.a.

S.17 to 21 of the Copyright Ordinance deal with the duration of copyright works.

For authors who had worked during or fought in the Great Patriotic War, the duration of copyrights was extended by four years.

The duration of copyright protection was limited to 15 years if the design was registrable; that is, it was new and had eye-appeal.

Congress, by extending the duration of copyrights, are "rewarding and protecting monopolies," Mr. Lessig said.

The duration of copyright may be extended across the European Community to a uniform seventy years from the year of death of the artist or author.

The main dispositions concerning the duration of copyright are contained in Title III, Chapter 1, as modified.

LEAD: An article in Business Day on Oct. 20 incorrectly described the duration of copyrights.

This applies regardless of the provisions of national law regarding the authorship of the film, ensuring a common duration of copyright between Member States.

The provisions on duration have been largely modified by the Duration of Copyright and Related Rights Regulations 1995 No. 3297.

Except for typographical arrangement of published editions, the duration of copyright in other works is also 50 years from certain events specified in the Copyright Ordinance.

The duration of copyright under the 1988 Act does not depend on the initial owner of the copyright, nor on the country of origin of the work.

Rather, the duration of copyright used to be limited to much shorter terms of years, and some works never gained protection because they did not follow the now-abandoned compulsory format.

While the presumptive duration of copyright rights had expired, there remained a question of whether Hugo's heirs were entitled to rights under the theory of droit moral.