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Determining the Term of Protection for Films: When Does a Film Fall into the Public Domain in Europe?
Terms of protection were one of the first aspects of copyright and related rights to be harmonised at European level, leaving in principle no room for national deviations from the European norm. The principle is simple and widely known: the term of protection is 70 years after the death of the author. However, when calculating the term of protection for an actual work, the proverbial devil lies in some complex regulatory details, some important examples of which are mentioned below.
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