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From: Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@optushome.com.au>
To: Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@iet.unipi.it>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
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Subject: Re: does Copyright on source files expire ?
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On 2009-Mar-25 05:31:52 -0400, David Schultz <das@freebsd.org> wrote:
>In the US, the rule that applies most of the time is that
>Copyright expires 70 years after the author dies, although there
>are many special cases where the term differs.

And the '70' gets regularly extended following pressure from the big
content owners.  As a rule of thumb, you can expect (eg) 'Mickey
Mouse' to never be released from Copyright.

--=20
Peter Jeremy

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