2 Dec
2011
2 Dec
'11
11:58 a.m.
From: Jim Scheef
Sent: Friday, December 02, 2011 11:04 AM
I believe the IBM-Microsoft collaboration lasted thru
1.1. Not sure
about 1.2 or 1.3. Version 2.0 and later were pure IBM, although any
legacy code from the earlier versions had a joint copyright. Gee, that
copyright should have expired now - it been 20+ years...
????
US Copyright for "anonymous works, pseudonymous works, and works made
for hire" lasts for 95 years from first publication or 120 years from
creation, whichever comes first, as of 1978.
Come on, people, the relevant portion of the US Copyright code is not
hard to read: http://copyright.gov/title17/ has every chapter in PDF.
See Chapter 3, "Duration of Copyright", Section 302.
Rich Alderson
Vintage Computing Sr. Server Engineer
Vulcan, Inc.
505 5th Avenue S, Suite 900
Seattle, WA 98104
mailto:RichA at vulcan.com
mailto:RichA at LivingComputerMuseum.org
http://www.LivingComputerMuseum.org/