KIM/MOS-Tech

At 02:22 AM 9/2/98 -0700, Sam wrote: I wonder if there is legal precedent that might establish a reasonable level of due diligence to determine that a copyright asset has indeed been abandoned, and a legitimate method by which someone else could be considered at least allowed to reproduce it but perhaps not claim ownership of it. In short, a process to follow that would establish that something is on its way to becoming public domain. Without preservation now, the asset might be truly lost. For example, I've contacted several authors of early computer books who've since tossed their floppies with the original manuscript. Without this, we're back to scanning and OCR and proofreading. They'd thought that absolutely no one was interested. For example, Sheldon Leemon, author of "Mapping the C-64", tossed his old Atari floppies that had held his manuscript. - John