16 years I think.
Eric
Clayton Frank Helvey wrote:
> 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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> >
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Received on Thu Jan 16 2003 - 23:25:01 GMT