Vin McLellan wrote:
In the US, at least, no copyright held by a corporation has
been given
over to the public domain since WWI -- and, Tom's suggestion to the
contrary, there were many of them in corporate hands even then;-)
are there any sources for this?
None I
Vin McLellan wrote:
anonymous' view is too drastic, but I guess that he's more
close to home as far as copyright AS A BUSINESS is concerned. I
don't remember any multinational corporations living entirely on
(C) in, say, 1928.
In the 1920s, all over the industrialized world,
Tom Vogt wrote:
anonymous' view is too drastic, but I guess that he's more
close to home as far as copyright AS A BUSINESS is concerned. I
don't remember any multinational corporations living entirely on
(C) in, say, 1928.
Vin McLellan replied:
In the
Secret Squirrel declared:
Copyright is a short-lived aberration (60-70 years ?), and
technology is finally dealing with it.
Vin McLellan replied:
U. Check out Section 8 of the US Constitution.
1787.
Vin McLellan wrote:
Secret Squirrel suggested:
Copyright is a short-lived aberration (60-70 years ?), and
technology is finally dealing with it.
U. Check out Section 8 of the US Constitution.
1787.http://caselaw.findlaw.com/data/constitution/articles.html
At 12:22 PM -0400 7/5/00, David Honig wrote:
At 01:28 AM 7/5/00 -0400, Secret Squirrel wrote:
That is, unless analog recording equipment is criminalized and
exterminated (illegal possession of a microphone - 5 years. Possession
of a microphone while committing a copyright crime - 10 years.)
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