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GM lawsuit over Einstein image use dismissed | 354 comments | Create New Account
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GM lawsuit over Einstein image use dismissed
Authored by: hardmath on Monday, October 22 2012 @ 11:31 AM EDT
As a general rule works created after 1978 will enjoy protection for the life of the author plus 70 years under US law.

Here the problem is Einstein died in 1955.

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Recursion is the opiate of the mathists.

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Elvis, Einstein and Dépeçage - oh my!
Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, October 22 2012 @ 11:49 AM EDT
© is 70 years.

A maximum duration of 50 years appropriately reflects the balance between meaningful enforcement of the right of publicity after a famous individual’s death and the public’s interest in free expression. It aligns with the majority of current state statutes limiting the right’s postmortem duration. And it approximates the period evidently contemplated by the Presley court—the one court in New Jersey to have discussed the duration of the right—when it encouraged that state’s legislature to consider the issue with guidance from the then-current Copyright Act. [page 15 of the decision]

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