Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!cs.utexas.edu!helios!auvvidl From: auvvidl@auvc14.tamu.edu (Mike Vidlak) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc Subject: Re: Mac Copyright/Patent Message-ID: Date: 10 Apr 91 12:21:32 GMT References: <20266@brahms.udel.edu> <1991Apr10.001229.1677@groucho> Sender: usenet@helios.TAMU.EDU Organization: Dept. of Computer Science, Texas A&M University Lines: 30 In-reply-to: hermens@ted.cs.uidaho.edu's message of 10 Apr 91 00:12:29 GMT In article <1991Apr10.001229.1677@groucho> hermens@ted.cs.uidaho.edu writes: Path: helios!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!ogicse!uidaho!ted.cs.uidaho.edu!hermens From: hermens@ted.cs.uidaho.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc Date: 10 Apr 91 00:12:29 GMT References: <20266@brahms.udel.edu> Sender: @groucho Organization: University of Idaho Lines: 24 Posted: Tue Apr 9 17:12:29 1991 Nntp-Posting-Host: ted.cs.uidaho.edu.101.129.in-addr.arpa There is no possible way that a copyright or patent for the Macintosh could run out this year. Copyrights last for 50 years past the death of an author and patents last for 17 years. My calculations indicate that a Mac would have had to have been patented somewhere around 1974. The oldest Mac I know of is about six years old. Technicalities aside, Leonard Copyrights last 50 years beyond the death of the author, however, in the case of a copyright that belongs to a corporation (like Apple), the copyright lasts for 75 years. -- Michael Vidlak mvidlak@cs.tamu.edu auvvidl@auvsun1.tamu.edu