2 Dec
2011
2 Dec
'11
6:03 p.m.
A not-well-known tidbit is that Mary Bono thought that
copyrights
should be perpetual. Evidently, she'd not read the US Constitution.
Does it prohibit thinking things should be other than the way they are?
As Fred observed, you will be long dead by the time
the copyright
expires on OS/2.
Actually, that's not really knowable, because that time is ill-defined.
Copyright expiration varies from jurisdiction to jurisdiction, so there
is no single "time the copyright expires on OS/2", not unless and until
it's qualified by jurisdiction - or everyone's law is changed to agree,
which I pray will never happen. ((a) monocultures are evil; (b) I
still hold some faint hope the `intellectual property' bug will fixed
rather than spread even more widely.)
There is some commonality, under the Berne convention and its ilk, but
mercifully it does not eman the rest of the world has to suffer the
US's perpetual copyright mistake.
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