English Dictionary

rule of the shorter term

名詞

不可算名詞

(law) A feature of the copyright law of some countries, whereby the duration of protection granted by the country in question to a work created in a foreign country is limited to no greater than that which it would have received in its country of origin, even if it would have been eligible for a greater duration had it been created in the country in question; the rule that, when a copyrighted work passes into the public domain in its country of origin, it will also pass into the public domain in the country in question if it has not already done so.

日本語の意味

著作権法における原則で、外国で創作された作品の保護期間が、その作品が原産国で得る保護期間を上回らないように制限されること。 / 例えば、もし原産国での保護期間が短く設定されている場合、他国でもその短い期間に基づいて著作権が認められるというルール。 / つまり、ある国での保護期間に従い、外国作品がその国での著作権の保護期間を短縮して適用されることを意味する。

The court applied the rule of the shorter term when determining the duration of protection for the foreign author's work.

裁判所は、外国人著作者の作品の保護期間を決定する際、作品の出所国で適用されるより短い期間に保護を限定する短期保護の原則を適用した。

意味（1）

(law) A feature of the copyright law of some countries, whereby the duration of protection granted by the country in question to a work created in a foreign country is limited to no greater than that which it would have received in its country of origin, even if it would have been eligible for a greater duration had it been created in the country in question; the rule that, when a copyrighted work passes into the public domain in its country of origin, it will also pass into the public domain in the country in question if it has not already done so.