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Old 12-03-2012, 03:49 PM
robatino robatino is offline
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Originally Posted by Sandy G View Post
That's pretty sad. I thoughtmost of this stuff went to public domain after X number of years...There's a good probability that a lot of this stuff will NEVER get seen again, I'd imagine.
For all practical purposes nothing goes to the public domain anymore. Whenever X is approached, legislation is passed to increase it. Google for "Copyright Term Extension Act" and "Eldred v. Ashcroft".

Edit: http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2012/12/how_...nnovation.html also discusses this - see the "Intellectual Property" section.

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