Am 02. May, 2003 schw=E4tzte Ted Gould so:
> The problem in copyright law is when the length of time that copyrights
> last is pushed out further and further. Ideally things should go into
> the public domain at some time (which would be interesting, because then
"public domain" means that it can be used w/o restriction and there is no
copyright, right? Thus it's the current *BSD license w/o the copyright
clause?
> it would seem that at some point the GPL becomes indefensible for
> unmaintained projects...). Mostly this has been fought with books and
> movies, where the publishers are interested in keeping rights on those
> materials forever. There was a publisher in England that was claiming
> copyright on Shakespeare (fortunately they lost in court).
Well, Disney keeps winning copyright protections for Grimms' Fairy Tales...
ciao,
der.hans
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