Re: Multitudes of Apple II games might now be public domain

[yeo@pigeon.qut.edu.au (Willie Yeo)]

Cturley2 (cturley2@aol.com) wrote:
: I received an email containing the following:: "current copyright law 
: states that any out-of-production game with a copyright older than 2 
: years, I believe, becomes public domain--or so I was told."   You can 
: check this for accuracy by reviewing the Copyright Information Act of 
: 1995.  Look it up!  You'll be astounded.  If this proves to be accurate, 
: Wille Yeo is going to have a lot of entries to make in his web site. 
: reclassification project, that I stimulated him into the development 
: and creation of in the past.

	Duh, even though if you are right, Treasure Chest Project falls 
under Australian Copyright Laws, based on the fact that the main page is 
sitting in Australia.

	Unless that's right (the statute you have quoted is correctly 
interpretated), of course, the american mirror site can house it, since 
the server will be sitting on american soil. But I do not like to be using 
this interpretation as a test case in a court of law. I do not have the 
resources and will to contest such a case.

	Will someone wanna check it out ?