Games reasserted their rights to sole ownership beyond copyright expiration for Arthur Edward White, choosing at that time to base the copyright expiration on the death of the contributor who died the most recently. TWH – It was originally expected to enter the public domain in 2013, 70 years after the death of Arthur Edward Waite, but U.S. US Games is, and remains, the only publisher authorized by Waite’s estate.” Games’ rights in the images as interpreted on its cards will not, and exact reproductions, including card backs and interpretations of colorization, will still lie exclusively in US Games.įinally, the date on which any copyright expires is dependent upon the jurisdiction, and while it may expire at the end of 2021 in some places, that is not true globally. US Games notes that ” Even when the copyright derived from Colman Smith expires, which was erroneously reported as Januinstead of December 31, 2021, U.S. US Games states that it “owns exclusive rights to the RIDER-WAITE mark, and that right may be preserved in perpetuity.”
US Games has informed The Wild Hunt that there is a conflation in the article with various versions of the deck and rights may preclude the deck from entering the public domain.
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