Tengwar on a general purpose translation site

[Richard Wordingham]

On Mon, 14 Mar 2022 18:29:03 -0500
David Starner via Unicode <unicode at corp.unicode.org> wrote:

> On Mon, Mar 14, 2022 at 4:07 PM Richard Wordingham via Unicode
> <unicode at corp.unicode.org> wrote:
> >
> > On Sun, 13 Mar 2022 19:52:29 -0500
> > David Starner via Unicode <unicode at corp.unicode.org> wrote:
> >  
> > > More than half the people in the world live in nations with
> > > differing copyright terms, including the three biggest (China,
> > > India and the US) and 12 out of the 20 biggest nations. China and
> > > many other nations are life+50, so in 2024; India and Bangladesh
> > > are life+60, so 2034, and the US is 95 years from publication*,
> > > so 2033 for anything in the Hobbit to 2050 for Return of the
> > > King. Mexico is life+100, so it looks like the Lord of the Rings
> > > will be under copyright there until 2074.
> > >
> > > * Yes, it's more complex, but that's the applicable rule.  
> >
> > But do any of those later dates apply to works by a purely British
> > author?  The Berne convention does not extend the copyright beyond
> > 2044, which is the rule for British authorship.  
> 
> The Berne Convention is life+50, which is 2024. It permits the rule of
> the shorter term, but does not require it. The US definitely does not
> have the rule of the shorter term, so British authors are treated like
> Americans, and the Lord of the Rings will be in copyright there until
> 2049 and 2050. It doesn't look like Mexico has the rule of the shorter
> term either, so it looks like 2074 there.

The Hobbit is in copyright in the UK until 2044.  Life+50 is in general
a minimum requirement of the convention.

Which copyright law is relevant to Unicode Incorporated and to ISO
10646?

Richard.