[plug] The Book from the Future

[Grahame Bowland]

On Fri, 2001-12-14 at 16:19, Colin Muller wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 14, 2001 at 04:11:47PM +0800, skribe wrote:
> > I've decided to try to learn Perl again.  So I went out and bought
> > PERL by example.  It looked the best of all the howtos I could find
> > in Perth.  So, I'm perusing the front of it and suddenly the
> > copyright date leaps out and grabs my eye (bloody painful let me
> > tell you =):   © 2002.  I wonder what calendar system they use at
> > Prentice Hall.
> 
> The same one they use at UBD: their latest Perth Street Directory is
> (C) 2002. I've wondered whether they might be endangering their
> copyright claim by doing that. What would happen if I took their maps
> and published them tomorrow with a (C) 2001?

I guess that since copyright is implicit and you don't _have_ to openly
state it, it probably won't matter until the copyright expires in x
years. It's amusing that x years increments every time Disney looks like
losing copyright over their old movies ;-) 

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