Re: [OT] Re: Copyright....
On Tue, 16 May 2000, Mike Bilow wrote:
) The time sequences just changed under US law, actually. This was due to
) heavy lobbying by outfits such as Disney, which was about to see the
) early Mickey Mouse films fall into the public domain. There is some
) action in the federal courts on the constitutionality of this.
It's not the first time. Project Gutenberg has been falling victim to
these shifts in copyright expirations since its inception. Tere have even
been cases where things have been taken back from the public domain.
)
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