anyone scans/PDFs of the DEC (VMS) "grey wall" ?

Dan wrote: Sorry, Dan, but that's very nearly as wrong about copyright as it is possible to be. In the US, for all practical purposes, copyrights on anything created after 1922 do last forever. The official story is that they last for the life of the author plus 70 years [*], but in practice every few years Disney et al. get Congress to pass a new law to extend it further. There's also a ratcheting up affect. The copyright interest in the US say "we've got to catch up with the rest of the world", and increase the US copyright term beyond what some other country has. Then the corporations in that country tell their legislature that they have to "catch up" with the US, and they increase theirs beyond ours, and then... As you may be aware, there is very little computer software and documentation from 1922 and earlier that is now in the public domain. Fair use? Why should the copyright owners let us have fair use? That won't help their profits any. We only get fair use to the extent that Disney et al. haven't yet convinced Congress and the courts to take it away from us. Eric [*] For works of corporate authorship, the shorter of 95 years from publication or 120 years from creation.