>On 6/20/00 4:30 PM, Faustus von Goethe ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote
>
> >>WOW, this has gotten off topic... say, how many more years until OD&D
>is
> >>public domain?
> >
> >Under original copyright protection as it was conceived in the
>constitution
> >the first D&D books would be in the public domain right now.
>
>Actually, not quite....they'd be two years away. The original term was
>28 years after date of publication or registration (whichever was first),
>so it'd be 2002, or possibly 2001 if it was registered in 1973.
Doh! Thought it was originally 25 years ... Faust
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