Vintage Software Copyright

Rod Smallwood rodsmallwood52 at btinternet.com
Fri Aug 21 12:11:58 CDT 2015


Yes OK and "very long"  would be?

On 21/08/2015 18:03, Paul Koning wrote:
>> On Aug 21, 2015, at 12:58 PM, Rod Smallwood <rodsmallwood52 at btinternet.com> wrote:
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>> So what is the lifetime of a software copyright ?
> The same as any other copyright.  It depends on the country, but in general the answer is "very long".  In the USA, recently copyrights have been extended repeatedly, in what has been referred to as the "Mickey Mouse Protection Act".  (It's called that because it was crafted to ensure that no Disney movie copyright will expire.)
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> 	paul
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