The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #114267 Message #2437618
Posted By: Q (Frank Staplin)
11-Sep-08 - 03:35 PM
Thread Name: What Is Public Domain
Subject: RE: What Is Public Domain
"...excluded U. S. copyright laws..."
Cannot be done.
See Universal Copyright Convention (rev. 1971). Signators include USA, United Kingdom.
http://portal.unesco.org/en/ev.php-URL_ID=15241&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=210.html
(or google International Copyright Convention).
Also see Bern Union for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Property.