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[adamantyr]

Tursi, on Thu Jan 12, 2012 1:38 PM, said:

adamantyr, on Wed Jan 11, 2012 7:09 PM, said:

unhuman, on Wed Jan 11, 2012 6:50 PM, said:

Copyrights last for the life of the author + some # of years or some insanely long time (thanks to Disney) for corporations unless they are recinded.

In the United States, it's life of the author + 28 years.

It's life of the author plus 70 years in the US, and for works for hire it's 120 years after the date of first publication.

IOW there are no home computers with software out of copyright due to expiry. Due to explicit release, I'm less sure. There are at least two console game systems (Vectrex and Jaguar) that were officially released to public domain.

Thanks for the correction, I realized afterwards I was wrong... 28 or 70 years, though, it's still pretty ludicrous where software is concerned.

Adamantyr

[marc.hull]

adamantyr, on Thu Jan 12, 2012 9:10 PM, said:

Tursi, on Thu Jan 12, 2012 1:38 PM, said:

adamantyr, on Wed Jan 11, 2012 7:09 PM, said:

unhuman, on Wed Jan 11, 2012 6:50 PM, said:

Copyrights last for the life of the author + some # of years or some insanely long time (thanks to Disney) for corporations unless they are recinded.

In the United States, it's life of the author + 28 years.

It's life of the author plus 70 years in the US, and for works for hire it's 120 years after the date of first publication.

IOW there are no home computers with software out of copyright due to expiry. Due to explicit release, I'm less sure. There are at least two console game systems (Vectrex and Jaguar) that were officially released to public domain.

Thanks for the correction, I realized afterwards I was wrong... 28 or 70 years, though, it's still pretty ludicrous where software is concerned.

Adamantyr

Yea Mike Tyson says that that kind of stuff is ludicrous in the most ludicrous way imaginable. More ludicrous than the most ludicrous thing of all.... FART........

Exactly why is this concept so foriegn ?

[unhuman]

marc.hull, on Thu Jan 12, 2012 10:32 PM, said:

Yea Mike Tyson says that that kind of stuff is ludicrous in the most ludicrous way imaginable. More ludicrous than the most ludicrous thing of all.... FART........

The funny thing about Mike Tyson loving to say "ludicrous" is the fact that he can't actually pronounce the word.

[marc.hull]

unhuman, on Fri Jan 13, 2012 6:59 AM, said:

marc.hull, on Thu Jan 12, 2012 10:32 PM, said:

Yea Mike Tyson says that that kind of stuff is ludicrous in the most ludicrous way imaginable. More ludicrous than the most ludicrous thing of all.... FART........

The funny thing about Mike Tyson loving to say "ludicrous" is the fact that he can't actually pronounce the word.

It may be that the pitch of his voice was so high that portions were inaudable . Imagine being beat to death by a man with the voice of an 8 year old girl.

[lucien2]

[marc.hull]

lucien2, on Wed Jan 18, 2012 4:30 PM, said:

Are you frowning because Wikipedia went black or because you might actually have to chose a side to come down on swissy . In jest.....