[Simh] ka655/ka655x + copyright/licensing issues

[Rich Alderson]

> From: Peter Lund <firefly at vax64.dk>
> Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2007 17:16:55 +0200

> Absolutely.  They are a far cry from the lines Franklin (as a writer and
> former printer's apprentice) got into the constitution:

> "To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for
> limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their
> respective Writings and Discoveries."

> This used to be interpreted as 14 (fourteen) years + a possible 14-year
> extension...

14 years is patents, which used to be non-extensible.  Copyrights used to be 28
years with possible extension for an additional 28.

                                                                Rich Alderson

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