Paul, at 18:08 on May 24 1995, you wrote to Alexander Watson Law...

AWL> I believe that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's works fall back into 
AWL> copyright on 1 July 1995, for another 10 years or so... Nuts!

PE> What is nuts is you (and Bill) saying ABSOLUTE CRAP like
PE> this.  Things don't "fall back" into copyright, once they're
PE> out they're out for good.  50 years after the death of the
PE> author, good-bye copyright. 

Oi, I have never said that!  What I did say (and still believe to be true)
is that the words and music to the song "Happy Birthday" had been
copyrighted by two old (English?) ladies, but I still don't know whether it
had ever been subject to copyright prior to their doing so.  If it's that
important to you, feel free to give APRA a call and check it out yourself.

Regards, Bill
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