Very OT: Lord of the Rings

[frantyck]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., "catorman" <catherine at c...> wrote:
> If I recall correctly from my copyright law studies (dubious), 
then 
> copyright expires 50 years after the writer has died.
[snip details] 
> Catherine


Copyright duration is currently 'life of author plus seventy years,' 
I believe. This seems to have come into effect early in 1978 in the 
US. There's a bunch of different categories, though...

Rrishi