[plug] The Book from the Future

[skribe]

On Fri, 14 Dec 2001 16:33, Grahame Bowland wrote:
> On Fri, 2001-12-14 at 16:19, Colin Muller wrote:

> > 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.

The cynic in me suggests that they do it to get an extra year.  After all, in 
50 years who is going to remember that they published in 2001 and not 2002.

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