2 Dec
2011
2 Dec
'11
4:53 p.m.
On 2 Dec 2011 at 14:55, Gene Buckle wrote:
AFAIK, Copyright expires 70 (95?) years after the
death of the author.
It's a shame Sonny Bono hit that tree AFTER helping pass the copyright
extentions him & Hollings (The honorable Senator from Disney!) got
passed.
There are some backwaters. For example, works published after 1923
but before 1978 (IIRC) retain their copyright for 95 years. So Mr.
Disney's mouse is safe.
The actual term is probably academic, because as sure as there will
be a tomorrow, the term will always be extended, now that the US
Supreme Court has given its approval to the practice and Mr. Disney's
mouse will forever remain protected.
In other words, as far as we in the US and of this epoch are
concerned, copyright is forever.
--Chuck