http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_copyright_law#Duration_of_copyright
On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 3:13 AM, VICTOR TARABOLA CORTIANO <vt...@c3sl.ufpr.br> wrote: >> Now this is interesting... >> >> Does anything supersede Copyright Law? >> >> What if I release my work as Anonymous with >> no text in regards to licensing? >> >> Does anyone wanting to use that work in OpenBSD >> actually have to track down who "Anonymous" was? >> Does the code become useless if its ownership >> cannot be transferred? In other words.. is there no >> such thing as genuine "public domain"? >> >> > > I don't know for certain, but I believe that in the United States > a work whithout copyright notices goes to the public domain after > 25 years.