OT: RE: [plug] The Book from the Future

[Craig Foster]

Isn't the Mickey Mouse likeness and name copyright officially lapsed?

I seem to remember something being said at the end of 2000, but my memory suggests it was '51 that MM was born.

Heh! yet another M-word for Microsoft to rope-pilliage-plunder...

Regards,

Craig Foster

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Grahame Bowland [mailto:grahame at ucs.uwa.edu.au]
> Sent: Friday, 14 December 2001 4:33 PM
> To: plug at plug.linux.org.au
> Subject: Re: [plug] The Book from the Future
> 
> 
> 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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