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From: Clayton Frank Helvey <msspcva_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Thu Jan 16 13:10:01 2003

I thought copyrights were for 100 years?

-- Frank

--- Vintage Computer Festival <vcf_at_siconic.com> wrote:
>
> So the whores that are beholden to corporate
> interest...er, I mean the
> United States Congress has decided that copyrights
> in the US should be
> extended another 20 years beyond the limits they
> were set at, and those
> mental miscreants that put an ex-Coke junkie in the
> White House...er, I
> mean the US Supreme Court has upheld these
> extensions, saying it is
> Congress' duty to determine copyright lengths.
>
> So this means that, for instance, the software for
> Apple ][, Commodore
> 64, Atari 800, and TRS-80 (to name but a few
> platforms) will not be public
> domain until something like 2075, when computers as
> we know them today
> will not even exist.
>
> This makes so much sense that I just had an
> aneurysm.
>
> --
>
> Sellam Ismail
> Vintage Computer Festival
>
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