DMD Copyright string

ketmar via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Wed Apr 22 08:20:42 PDT 2015


On Wed, 22 Apr 2015 13:58:48 +0000, Ola Fosheim Grøstad wrote:

> On Wednesday, 22 April 2015 at 07:13:09 UTC, weaselcat wrote:
>> On Wednesday, 22 April 2015 at 07:08:05 UTC, Shachar Shemesh wrote:
>>> Except, as you pointed out, that's not how copyright now works. The
>>> copyright for DMD would only expire 95 years after Walter dies,
>>> regardless of what the copyright notice says.
>>>
>>> Shachar
>>
>> something tells me it will be more than 95 years by the time Walter
>> passes considering Mickey's copyright expires in 8 years : )
> 
> It is rather complex in the US... Mickey movies are covered by 95 years
> after creation, but D is covered by:
> 
> «70 years after the death of author. If a work of corporate authorship,
> 95 years from publication or 120 years from creation,
> whichever expires first»
> 
> https://copyright.cornell.edu/resources/publicdomain.cfm

insane numbers. i'd say that they should be divided at least by 10.
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