Re: CPED

Bhante Nyanatusita is correct that Burma has no international
copyright law: their status as a "pariah state" has excluded them from
international conventions on copyright (inter alia).

It may be that Sri Lanka had a fifty year rule prior to a given date
--but I would expect that they have since signed the international
convention of 75 years.  Something similar happened in Australia, so
the rule is 50 years before lapsing for works prior to day-X, or 75
years if published after year-X.

Note that the laws for songs and audio recordings are entirely
different; this could actually be an issue for some Pali resources in
some media!

> I might have found someone in England who can sponsor the republication
> of Duroiselle's grammar by the BPS.

Well, I'm very busy with other projects right now, but if you want me
to "get serious" about revising Duroiselle, I've already made
extensive comparative readings of his charts with other sources, etc.,
so at some point in the future I could drop whatever I'm doing and
work on a new edition of D. (with *real* tables and charts instead of
the current e-text...).  Really, I could spend four month in S.L. (or
something) and get this done, while waiting around vainly for the
Maha-Mula temple to show us their MS ...

E.M.