Re: [SWCollect] [ SWCollect ] What's your favorite find?

[Edward Franks]

On Monday, November 11, 2002, at 01:33  PM, Chris Newman wrote:

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?

See <http://www.wikipedia.org/w/ wiki.phtml?title=Sonny_Bono_Copyright_Term_Extension_Act&printable=yes> for details. Basically, 20 year old software won't be in the public domain for another 75 years.

The US Supreme Court is deliberating on this law, but who knows what they'll decide? Especially since it involves some of our treaty obligations.

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Edward Franks
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