Re: New AppleWorks uploads

["Frank Townsend" <ftownsen@iamdigex.net>]

It is, of course, unusual as well as unnecessary to include a postdated date
range as a part of copyright notice.

Copyright duration is determined by the Copyright Act in force at the time
of publication, as well as any applicable amendments.

It is an interesting question, however, what the legal effect of such a date
range might be.  Since the duration of a work of personal authorship is life
+ 70 years (as well as the fact that the trend has been to _increase_ the
duration of copyright), 103 years might significantly underestimate the true
copyright period for the work.  Conversely, if the intent is to provide a
time certain for the work to enter the public domain, specifying this
outside date may not be adequate to accomplish that.

Finally, either the symbol � (the letter C in a circle), or the word
"Copyright", or the abbreviation "Copr.", are sufficient.  "Copyright �" is
unnecessary.


"The Apple II Mail Group" <a2mg@aol.comNomail> wrote in message
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> Just for the record, I've been doing the (c) 2098 thing on my files since
1998
> when I first started doing Y2K updates.