RE: [dvd-discuss] Inspiration or infringement

[Richard Hartman <hartman(at)onetouch.com>]

When did the last copyright expire (and what
year was it issued ... and what was the work)?

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-Richard M. Hartman
hartman@onetouch.com

186,000 mi./sec ... not just a good idea, it's the LAW!


> -----Original Message-----
> From: D. C. Sessions [mailto:dcs@lumbercartel.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, December 26, 2001 10:01 PM
> To: dvd-discuss@lweb.law.harvard.edu
> Subject: Re: [dvd-discuss] Inspiration or infringement
> 
> 
> On Wednesday 26 December 2001 20:26, Tom wrote:
> 
> # I would like to extrapolate that for an argument along the 
> lines of "at
> # the current speed, copyright will be 250 years in 2025". 
> also, I would
> # like to find the year in which copyright becomes permanent (i.e. the
> # term is so long that the next extension happens before even 
> the oldest
> # work expires).
> 
> We're basically already there.  Aside from the Reno gap (which was
> closed by statute and is now, as everyone knows, under litigation)
> no copyrights have expired in several decades, nor are any due to
> expire in the near future.
> 
> Plenty of time for another extension.
> 
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