Larry Niven's Altair

[Paul Koning]

> On Aug 20, 2015, at 10:30 AM, Jay Jaeger <cube1 at charter.net> wrote:
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> On 8/20/2015 3:32 AM, Randy Dawson wrote:
>> Who picked this up -
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>> I may have some cash for the buyer to mate it with my new ASR33, on its way via crate and freight.
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>> Anybody got debug and startup tips on the 33, it probably has been siting for a while.
>> (like who has the melted hammer replacements and such, tape and paper sources)
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>> I assume all the 8K, 4K BASICs are in public domain by now.  The demo for the kids will be the 15 minutes of paper tape, followed by READY.
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>> Randy
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> 
> Bad assumption.  Things that were actually registered even if there was
> no notice, or published with a copyright notice would still be protected
> under U.S. copyright.

Depending on when.  If it was published without notice, the key question is whether publication occurred before Jan 1, 1978, or after.  After, notice does not matter; before, lack of notice means no copyright.
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> https://copyright.cornell.edu/resources/publicdomain.cfm
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> Has a nice understandable synopsis.

Indeed.  Wikipedia is also useful.

	paul