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Posted by Bill Vermillion on 01/20/06 17:25
In article <slrndt25g1.kgc.nospam@debian.dns2go.com>,
Justin <nospam@insightbb.com> wrote:
>Bill Vermillion wrote on [Fri, 20 Jan 2006 16:15:02 GMT]:
>> In article <200120060348159096%invid@localnet.com>,
>> Invid Fan <invid@localnet.com> wrote:
>>>In article <1137745175.981878.288220@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com>,
>>>Regis <quelavor@netscape.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Is there something like abandonware in music, litterature and movie
>>>> industry ???
>>
>>>There's public domain, when the copyright has expired. Letting
>>>something go out of print for a few years doesn't put it there, though
>>>:)
>>
>> And the extension of the copyright laws a few years ago to give
>> the heirs of the original copyright owners what amounts to a
>> free-ride for a long time hasn't helped a thing.
>>
>> There were reasons for copyrights to be 26 years with a 26 year
>> renewal, but now copyright terms sound like a prison sentence "life
>> plus 50 years". [I may have that last number wrong].
>Didn't they up it to 70 years?
Could be. That would be like two consecutive life sentences. By
the time it was out of copyright no one would want it :_0
Bill
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