But isn't the 50-year marker the rule of Public Domain? What did Disney do to tighten the restriction? Surely the rule pre-dates the 30s, when Disney was on its way to becoming a stable company?
Edward Franks wrote: > > On Sunday, November 10, 2002, at 11:20 PM, Hugh Falk wrote: > [Snip] > > Now here's a question. If you own the 20-year-old original, is buying > > 20-year-old copies (likely pirated 20 years ago) still pirating? :-) > > Yes. ;-) > > Assuming that the copyright holder hasn't given permission for people > to copy the game -- such as what Dr. Cat did with his Caverns of > Freitag -- then it is protected for at least 50 more years. You can > thank Sonny Bono and Disney for this state of affairs in the US. :-/ > > -- > > Edward Franks > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > This message was sent to you because you are currently subscribed to > the swcollect mailing list. To unsubscribe, send mail to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of 'unsubscribe swcollect' > Archives are available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/swcollect@;oldskool.org/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent to you because you are currently subscribed to the swcollect mailing list. To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of 'unsubscribe swcollect' Archives are available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/swcollect@;oldskool.org/
