Larry Niven's Altair
Tothwolf
tothwolf at concentric.net
Sat Aug 22 16:07:48 CDT 2015
On Thu, 20 Aug 2015, Paul Koning wrote:
> On Aug 20, 2015, at 10:30 AM, Jay Jaeger <cube1 at charter.net> wrote:
>> On 8/20/2015 3:32 AM, Randy Dawson wrote:
>>
>>> 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.
>>
>> 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.
Indeed. Apple even screwed up on this with their iconic rainbow apple
logo. I discovered this while researching the history of the logo while
doing image work on Wikipedia / Wikimedia Commons many years ago. It is
still a trademark, but the image is public domain because it was published
before 1978 with no notice.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Apple_Computer_Logo_rainbow.svg
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