From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 26 22:24:52 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 55B861065672 for ; Thu, 26 Mar 2009 22:24:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mwm-keyword-freebsdhackers2.e313df@mired.org) Received: from mired.org (two.mired.org [74.143.213.43]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F01638FC13 for ; Thu, 26 Mar 2009 22:24:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mwm-keyword-freebsdhackers2.e313df@mired.org) Received: (qmail 23953 invoked by uid 1001); 26 Mar 2009 17:56:43 -0400 Received: from bhuda.mired.org (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by bhuda (tmda-ofmipd) with ESMTP; Thu, 26 Mar 2009 17:56:43 -0400 Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 17:56:42 -0400 To: Peter Jeremy Message-ID: <20090326175642.4fafdde3@bhuda.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <20090326095802.GH56137@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org> References: <20090325084722.GC98685@onelab2.iet.unipi.it> <20090325093152.GB85469@zim.MIT.EDU> <20090326095802.GH56137@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org> Organization: Meyer Consulting X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.1 (GTK+ 2.14.7; amd64-portbld-freebsd7.1) Face: 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 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/1.1.12 (Macallan) From: Mike Meyer Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, Luigi Rizzo Subject: Re: does Copyright on source files expire ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 22:24:52 -0000 On Thu, 26 Mar 2009 20:58:02 +1100 Peter Jeremy wrote: > On 2009-Mar-25 05:31:52 -0400, David Schultz 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. You forgot "and anything with a copyright newer than that one, which includes anything in the US written after March 1, 1989." after the words "Mickey Mouse". And yes, chasing down the owners is a PITA. IIRC, Paul Allen did a DVD retrospective of John Wayne's movies, and it cost more to chase down and obtain rights from all the people involved than it did to produce the DVD. But that's the way the big content owners want it. http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent Network/Unix/Perforce consultant, email for more information. O< ascii ribbon campaign - stop html mail - www.asciiribbon.org