Michael Shields wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Marc de Piolenc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> The US Constitution prohibits ex post facto laws. > > It seems to me that works could be removed from the public domain > without passing an ex post facto law, as long as this hypothetical law > did not affect
derivative ^ > works created or copies made during the period between > the expiration of the copyrights and the law's passing. Which is pretty much what happened in the only case when some works fell out of the PD due to a change in US law (the implementation of the URAA), though derivative works faired poorly. -- Peter Fairbrother
