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About The Comic Books We Have => Comics Not Allowed => Topic started by: narfstar on July 13, 2008, 02:27:54 PM

Title: yarmak
Post by: narfstar on July 13, 2008, 02:27:54 PM

Is the Australian comic Yarmak Jungle King OK here? 40s and 50s no copyright on books so should be pd

Title: Re: yarmak
Post by: John C on July 13, 2008, 03:27:06 PM

Australian copyright has long been (and I believe also retroactively) based on the death(s) of the creator(s), just like Europe, so tread carefully.

Title: Re: yarmak
Post by: Aussie500 on July 14, 2008, 03:11:54 AM

Quote from: narfstar on July 13, 2008, 02:27:54 PM

Is the Australian comic Yarmak Jungle King OK here? 40s and 50s no copyright on books so should be pd

Unfortunately Australia has no seperate provisions pertaining to work for hire situations, for our time period copyright expires 50 years from the death of the author/authors, so l doubt many Australian comics would be public domain. Australia does not require registration of copyright, so a copyright notice is not necessary for the work to be protected. Sorry narfstar but we are not likely to ever have an aussie section for comics, not unless l can get legal advise on whether or not the site can be classed as an archive.