On Jul 31, 2010, at 12:30 AM, Egon Willighagen wrote: > some legal framework kicks in to overcome this problem... > I'm pretty sure it works something like that with > copyright on books too... not?
Not. "Orphan works" - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orphan_works See also "abandonware" - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abandonware While my understanding is US-centric, I think the same applies to other countries, as a consequence of the Berne convention. Andrew [email protected] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Palm PDK Hot Apps Program offers developers who use the Plug-In Development Kit to bring their C/C++ apps to Palm for a share of $1 Million in cash or HP Products. Visit us here for more details: http://p.sf.net/sfu/dev2dev-palm _______________________________________________ Blueobelisk-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/blueobelisk-discuss
