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What is the copyright status of the post 1997 special editions?

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I’m almost certainly going to be long dead before this question becomes important (thanks Berne Convention), but I wanted to ask anyway. You have the original unaltered trilogy, copyrighted 1977/1980/1983. Then you have the 1997 Special Editions, which I believe are copyrighted for the same year, given the mention in the closing credits.

What about the 2004 revision? Or the 2011 revision? Or the 2019 revision? The closing credits for the original trilogy have never been altered since the 1997 release. When the 1997 SE eventually enters the public domain in the 2100s, will the newer revisions immediately be placed in the public domain alongside them, or have they been copyrighted for their respective dates? And what about foreign dubs?

Nobody sang The Bunny Song in years…

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Are you the same guy who created (or posted in) this thread?:
https://lemmy.world/post/10672197?scrollToComments=true

EDIT: Wait, you’re talking about the post-'97 versions, not the '97 ones. I assume the same thing would apply to those, where it would be publication (i.e., alteration) + 95 years. Assuming that what other people have said is accurate; I’m a bit skeptical if the +95 policy would still apply even after life+70 was enacted, but then again, I’m no expert. But if +95 applies to the '97 versions, it would necessarily apply to the other versions as well if the credits haven’t been changed.

Not sure about dubs, unfortunately. I’m guessing that they’d have the same copyright status as the original version provided that the end credits haven’t been changed. Though again, I’m not an expert on this matter.

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Ah, interesting coincidence, then. But yeah, that thread may have some of the answers you’re looking for.