Re: Cypherpunks anti-License

[Edmund GRIMLEY EVANS <edmundo@rano.org>]

Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org>:

> Not true.  Governments can (and have) passed legislation to yank a work
> out of the public domain and put it back under copyright.

This happened when they extended the duration of copyright in the EU
from 50 to 70 years. (To remember when this happened, it helps to
remember that in most of the EU Hitler's "Mein Kampf" was out of
copyright for 3 months before it went back under the control of the
state of Bavaria, which apparently tries to prevent it from being
reprinted at all.)