Copyright laws?

[juicypuffin]

It's come to my attention that Iceland's copyright laws are extremely lax compared to America's - the same may be true for the other Nordics. Could some of you can look them up for each country? If they're all lax like Iceland's, that would mean we could have a lot more types of resources on this comm

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[fluffyblanket]

Great to hear from you again ! Iceland sounds very progressive - I'm thinking about their anarchic dealings with the banking crisis .

[laurelsblue]

I think this is the Faroese law on copyright and it's the same (?) as Denmark's (found here by searching for 'Ophavsret'). § 13 and 50 seem to be the relevant bits but I'm relying on Google Translate.

[varnafinde]

The Norwegian law about copyright is found at http://lovdata.no/all/hl-19610512-002.html .
§ 12 talks about making private/personal copies.
Then a few paragraphs talk about what you can do under a licence (which is paid for one way or another).
§ 22 talks about quoting.
§ 40 says that copyright lasts until 70 years from the year of the author's death. Copies of a performance have a copyright until 50 years after the performance (or after the publication of the copy, if it is published later).
§ 45 says that movies/broadcasts have the same copyright as copies of a performance.

It seems more strict than the Icelandic laws.