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In article <1992Jan9.074625.14161@nntp.hut.fi> jkp@cs.HUT.FI (Jyrki Kuoppala) writes:
>In article <946@lysator.liu.se>, aronsson@lysator (Lars Aronsson) writes:
>>Swedish copyright laws are such that when an author has been dead for
>>50 years, all her works are free for everyone to copy and publish.
>
>The same in Finland, and it's 50 years from publication if the
>author's name is not published.  If there are several authors, it's 50
>years from the last author's death.
>
>>Is there anything like a United Nations treaty (an international law)
>>on copyright?
>
>There is the Berne convention which seems to have a minimum limit of
>50 years (deducing from the EC software directive).  In Europe,
>there's the EC copyright directive but it is only for computer
>software, not books.  I don't know if there is an EC directive for
>books.
>
From the Berne Convention on international copyright (including books, and
all the other stuff you'd think of as copyrighted), Article 7, sec. 1:

"The term of protection granted by this Convention shall be the life of
the author and fifty years after his death."
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