On Mon, May 16, 2016 at 11:05 AM, Dale E Sterner <sunbeam...@juno.com> wrote: > Copyright laws in the US & Europe are very different. > In the US if the creator neglects his work fails, to renew ; > his copyright dies forever. In europe an expired copyright > can be revived from limbo if he retakes an interest in > it again. A lot of dos stuff has died from neglect but > in europe I've been told that its not permanently dead. > If you live in Europe, you need to be more careful.
Your knowledge of copyright is woefully out of date. The United States has been a signatory to the Berne copyright convention since 1989 (as are 169 other nations), and US and European copyright practices are the same. The principal difference I'm aware of is duration of copyright. Copyright in the US and most other places is "Author's life plus 70 years". (It used to be Life + 50. That got changed in the US after a push by DisneyCo because Mickey Mouse was about to lapse into the public domain. Canada is still Life + 50). There is no requirement for renewal, nor is there requirement to register. Copyright exists automatically upon completion of the work. (Registration of copyright with the Library of Congress in the US allows you to sue for higher damages in the event of infringement, but is not needed to *have* copyright.) > cheers > DS ______ Dennis ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mobile security can be enabling, not merely restricting. Employees who bring their own devices (BYOD) to work are irked by the imposition of MDM restrictions. Mobile Device Manager Plus allows you to control only the apps on BYO-devices by containerizing them, leaving personal data untouched! https://ad.doubleclick.net/ddm/clk/304595813;131938128;j _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
