Wikipedia:Copyright problems/2014 September 22

22 September 2014
SCV for 2014-09-22 [ Edit]

Copyright investigations (manual article tagging)

 * Gresford disaster ([ history] · [ last edit] · rewrite) from Unknown. Given that, according to the article, this was published in the 1930's I suspect that this may be copyright but am uncertain enough about anonymous works in the UK in that period to be sure.. Dpmuk (talk) 03:48, 22 September 2014 (UTC)
 * The specific matter seems to be: whether song lyrics published in the 1930s in UK are free to use in the article. User adding them claims the copyright expired 50y after publishing, per . To me, that appears to say that the copyright to the audio recording would lapse after 50y but the copyright on the lyrics (under dispute here) would have expired 70y after the death of the author, thus rendering them (likely) still under copyright. A compunding problem here is that the lyrics were (according to the article) published anonymously. Crow  Caw  23:16, 13 October 2014 (UTC)
 * Brilliant, User:Crow. :) See Commons:Commons:Anonymous works - in the UK, anonymous works become PD 70 years after first publication. HOWEVER, that runs us afoul of URAA. Works that were not public domain in the UK (and other affected countries) by 1 January 1996 are under copyright in the U.S. for 95 years after publication. If the work was published in 1934, the day after the disaster, it would come into the public domain on 1 January 2005 in the UK and 1 January 2029 in the U.S. See the summary at Public_domain. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 11:28, 21 October 2014 (UTC)


 * Kehillat Israel (Lansing, Michigan) ([ history] · [ last edit] · rewrite) from http://kehillatisrael.net/about.html. There is also an old draft at User:Zakhem/Kehillat Israel (Lansing, Michigan) withe the same issues.  Whpq (talk) 14:45, 22 September 2014 (UTC)
 * First sentence is ok, the rest is verbatim from 2 sections of the source page. I'd have G12 if it came up on NPP. Crow  Caw  23:20, 13 October 2014 (UTC)