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echo: synchronet
to: Tracker1
from: poindexter FORTRAN
date: 2022-06-22 07:58:00
subject: Re: Old DOS BBS Programs

-=> Tracker1 wrote to DaiTengu <=-

 Tr> Don't remember where I first read it, but someone had the idea of
 Tr> allowing copyright to never expire...  Basically, you get the first 15
 Tr> years free (original term, but no cost, by default like now)... but to
 Tr> get any more, you pay $xx at 15 years, and it doubles every N years.

That damn mouse ended up screwing up copyright law. Disney kept wanting to 
extend copyright on Mickey Mouse and lobbied for changes.


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