Template:PD-US-no-renewal-unvested
This work was legally published within the United States (or the United Nations Headquarters in New York subject to Section 7 of the United States Headquarters Agreement) before 1964, and the copyright of this work was assigned by the author to another party. That assignee renewed the copyright at the appropriate time, in the assignee's own name, after the death of the author. However, this work is in the public domain in the United States because the renewal copyright was never vested in the assignees who made the copyright renewal application. The author must be alive at the start of the copyright renewal term for the author's prior assignments to vest. If, however, the author dies before vesting of the renewal copyright, the party to whom the renewal-copyright interest was conveyed loses the entitlement to that interest. Therefore, the copyright of this work is not valid.
This work may be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.
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Additional information regarding an invalid copyright renewal application to explain why specific works are in the public domain.
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Usage
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Place this template on the talk page of all appropriate works and corresponding authors. This template should be used in conjunction with {{PD-US-no-renewal}}. It should only be used in cases where an invalid copyright renewal application was filed.
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Eligibility
[edit]This licence can be used in cases were:
- A work was published in the 1929–1963 period as per {{PD-US-no-renewal}}.
- The copyright was renewed by a corporate body (eg. a publisher) or other assignee, in the assignee's own name. (That is, the name of the publisher but not the name of the author.)
- The author died before the renewal period (ie. less than 28 years from publication).
If there is any indication that the author's estate re-assigned the renewal copyright back to the corporate body, then the renewal was probably valid and this condition does not apply.
If the publisher renewed copyright in the author's name, on behalf of the authors heirs and estate, then the renewal was probably valid and this condition does not apply.
Note
[edit]Some of the text used for this template is derived from the Opinion of the Court in Roger Miller Music, Inc. v. Sony ATV Publishing, LLC by Judge Ransey Guy Cole, Jr.