Section VII Duration of Protection
Protection dates from first publication.
Generally.—The period of protection is for the natural life of the author and for seven years after his death, or for forty-two years from the date of publication, whichever period shall be longer.301
Posthumous Works are protected for forty-two years from the date of publication.302
Encyclopædias are protected for the life of the proprietor and seven years (by 5 & 6 Vict. c. 45, sec. 18, the proprietor of a collective work enjoys the same rights as if he were the actual author thereof), or for forty-two years from the date of publication, whichever period shall be the longer.303
Reviews, Magazines, and other periodical works of a like nature304 have two separate copyrights, viz.:
i. The proprietor’s copyright in the publication, as a whole, for his life and seven years, or forty-two years from first publication. ii. The contributor’s copyright in his separate contribution as a separate work, beginning twenty-eight years after publication of the collective work, or on separate publication, if such should by agreement take place within the twenty-eight years, and lasting for his life and seven years, or forty-two years from first publication in the collective work.
New Editions.305—As to each edition, the copyright runs from the date of publication thereof, in so far as the matter therein is then first published.
Joint Works.—Although there is no statutory provision, they are probably protected for the life of the surviving author and seven years, or for forty-two years from first publication.306