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Posted by Alun L. Palmer on 01/21/06 17:49
Justin <nospam@insightbb.com> wrote in
news:slrndt1vg7.kgc.nospam@debian.dns2go.com:
> Invid Fan wrote on [Fri, 20 Jan 2006 03:48:15 -0500]:
>> 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
>> :)
>
> copyrights don't expire anymore. Not until Disney stops buying
congress.
LOL! You're right, of course. They should just be honest and ask for a
Mickey Mouse bill to preserve the copyright on the mouse in perpetuity,
and change the copyright term back to 50 years. IMHO it should be cut to
10 years for software applications. There should also be some provision
for abandonment for non publication.
I actually beleive in the central tenets of patent law, but I can't say
the same for copyright law as it stands today. I suppose it's just as
well I am only a patent agent.
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