Copyright of I burn Paris

[Bora Chung]

Dear Adam,
I'm glad somebody finds the information useful (and I apologize for the
mistake. "TranslaTOR.") Since the new French edition by Felin is in public
domain (their editor confirmed), I think the work is probably in the public
domain already. According to the French copyright law (again, as far as I
understood) the copyright is valid for 70 years after the author or the
copyright holder's death. Ernest Flammarion died in 1936, so the copyright
expires pretty soon anyways.
But one thing is the possibilities of renewing copyright. I do remember seeing
something about direct descendents or heirs, but I don't remember reading
anything specific (ie, how many years etc) about renewing it.
Bora Chung
bochung at indiana.edu


Quoting Adam Siegel <apsiegel at UCDAVIS.EDU>:

> Oops.  Bora, thanks for letting us know--the twists and turns of copyright
> when applied works originally published (it would seem) in translation is
> pretty circuitous.  It wouldn't surpise me if you come to find that the
> ultimate legal copyright holder is the French publisher.
>
> Adam
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> On Wed, 27 Apr 2005, Adam Siegel wrote:
>
> > Thanks for letting
> >
> > ===========
> > Adam Siegel
> > Humanities and Social Sciences Reference Librarian
> > Peter J. Shields Library
> > 100 North West Quad
> > University of California, Davis
> > Davis, CA 95616
> > apsiegel at ucdavis.edu
> > 530-754-6828
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> > On Wed, 27 Apr 2005, Bora Chung wrote:
> >
> > > Update:
> > > 1. The Polish copyright law says, as far as I understand, that the
> copyright is
> > > valid for 70 years after the work was published. So I think I can
> translate the
> > > 1929 and/or the 1931 version. The 1931 version is complete with all three
> parts
> > > and I haven't found any big difference between this one and the 1974
> Czytelnik
> > > edition.
> > >
> > > 2. 1929 and 1931 editions have the same preface written by Juliusz
> Kaden-
> > > Bandrowski. In fact they look identical, except that the 1929 edition is
>
> > > incomplete and the 1931 edition is complete. I wonder how that happened.
>
> > >
> > > 3.The first page of 1931 version says the story was originally published
> for
> > > the first time in French in installments. That doesn't mean it was
> originally
> > > written in French, though. If there was a translater from Polish to
> French, I
> > > wonder who that was, just out of curiousity.
> > >
> > > 4. Nothing about T. Ordon or the Russian translater so far. In fact the
> preface
> > > to the 1930 Russian version is quite interesting but it's anonymous.
> > >
> > > Bora Chung
> > > Slavic department
> > > Indiana University
> > > bochung at indiana.edu
> > >
> > >
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