2 Dec
2011
2 Dec
'11
6:45 p.m.
On 2 Dec 2011 at 21:03, Mouse wrote:
No, it's not contrary, but it betrays her ignorance as a legislator.
To wit, section 8:
"To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for
limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their
respective Writings and Discoveries;'
Note the phrase "limited times". I respectfully submit that "in
perpetuity" is not "limited". For a federal legislator to make this
mistake just demonstrates that anyone can get elected to public
office.
Since we were talking about US copyright, I feel secure in that the
period is well-defined, barring global catastrophe. Should that
occur, I doubt that the rights to OS/2 will not even be remotely near
the top of the list of topics to be considered for survival.
--Chuck
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,.