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In the second half of the 20th century, they made (or sometimes delegated) the decisions about what to publish and how, and they had a right to receive royalties for the sales of the books. | In the second half of the 20th century, they made (or sometimes delegated) the decisions about what to publish and how, and they had a right to receive royalties for the sales of the books. | ||
Rhees died in 1989, Anscombe in 2001, and | Rhees died in 1989, Anscombe in 2001, and von Wright in 2003. Although the author of this essay was unable to find a detailed account of their wills and testaments, it is clear that, after their deaths, the copyright holders for Wittgenstein’s writings became The Master and Fellows of Trinity College at the University of Cambridge. This leads us to think that it was Rhees’s, Anscombe’s, and von Wright’s joint will to elect Trinity as the heir to the intellectual property of Wittgenstein’s writings. | ||
29 April 2021 was the 70th anniversary of Wittgenstein’s death and on 1 January 2022 Wittgenstein’s writings entered the public domain in those countries where the copyright term is 70 years P.M.A. (''post mortem auctoris'', i.e., “after the author’s death”). This includes most European countries, much of Africa, Asia and Oceania, and most Latin American Countries. In some jurisdictions, including many African and Asian countries, as well as Canada, where the copyright term is 50 years P.M.A., Wittgenstein’s works were already in the public domain. In some other countries, such as the United States, where copyright laws are rather different than in most other countries and determining the copyright status of a work is not simply a matter of counting the years that have elapsed since the author’s death, some of Wittgenstein’s works are still copyrighted; there, it is still Trinity that counts as the copyright holder. | 29 April 2021 was the 70th anniversary of Wittgenstein’s death and on 1 January 2022 Wittgenstein’s writings entered the public domain in those countries where the copyright term is 70 years P.M.A. (''post mortem auctoris'', i.e., “after the author’s death”). This includes most European countries, much of Africa, Asia and Oceania, and most Latin American Countries. In some jurisdictions, including many African and Asian countries, as well as Canada, where the copyright term is 50 years P.M.A., Wittgenstein’s works were already in the public domain. In some other countries, such as the United States, where copyright laws are rather different than in most other countries and determining the copyright status of a work is not simply a matter of counting the years that have elapsed since the author’s death, some of Wittgenstein’s works are still copyrighted; there, it is still Trinity that counts as the copyright holder. | ||