I stand corrected. What I heard was that senator Sonie Bono had the law extended. The europeans went a step futher and extended it even futher. I was talking to a woman who writes music and she said she had to renew every couple of years for a very small fee. What I don't understand is why copyrights last so much longer than patents Patents can cost billions to perfect.
cheers DS On Mon, 16 May 2016 15:14:11 -0400 dmccunney <dennis.mccun...@gmail.com> writes: > 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 Your knowledge of copyright is woefully out of date.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 > ******************************************************>>>> >From Dale Sterner - MS organic chemistry http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/jo00975a052 *******************************************************>>>> ____________________________________________________________ The New York Times Prince's Addiction And An Intervention Too Late http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL3141/573a218252eda2182522ast04duc ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
