Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!mit-eddie!killer!chasm From: chasm@killer.DALLAS.TX.US (Charles Marslett) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: Prior use of the name "ARC" Summary: Life of the author Message-ID: <5556@killer.DALLAS.TX.US> Date: 18 Sep 88 00:58:28 GMT References: <3515@tekigm2.TEK.COM> Organization: The Unix(R) Connection, Dallas, Texas Lines: 22 In article <3515@tekigm2.TEK.COM>, timothym@tekigm2.TEK.COM (Timothy D Margeson) writes: > Hi Agin...:-) > > The prior use of ARC as stated by KPETERSEN is dated around 1960, and > therefore falls under the copyrigth statute of limitations (17 years, unless > a renewal is applied for, or sufficient modifications to the work have been > made to protect the work in it's majority). > > -- > Tim Margeson (206)253-5240 To the best of my knowledge, a document copyrighted by an individual is for the life of the author (with ways to extend it beyond that) -- the 17-year limit was for patents (and corporate copyrights?). Any copyright lawyers out there (willing to stick his neck out, after the comments we have made about lawyers recently ((:-}). Charles Marslett chasm@killer.dallas.tx.us <<< Apply all reasonable disclaimers >>>