> On Aug 20, 2015, at 10:30 AM, Jay Jaeger <cu...@charter.net> wrote: > > > > On 8/20/2015 3:32 AM, Randy Dawson wrote: >> Who picked this up - >> >> I may have some cash for the buyer to mate it with my new ASR33, on its way >> via crate and freight. >> >> Anybody got debug and startup tips on the 33, it probably has been siting >> for a while. >> (like who has the melted hammer replacements and such, tape and paper >> sources) >> >> I assume all the 8K, 4K BASICs are in public domain by now. The demo for >> the kids will be the 15 minutes of paper tape, followed by READY. >> >> Randy >> > > Bad assumption. Things that were actually registered even if there was > no notice, or published with a copyright notice would still be protected > under U.S. copyright.
Depending on when. If it was published without notice, the key question is whether publication occurred before Jan 1, 1978, or after. After, notice does not matter; before, lack of notice means no copyright. > > https://copyright.cornell.edu/resources/publicdomain.cfm > > Has a nice understandable synopsis. Indeed. Wikipedia is also useful. paul
