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

[Rubywand <rubywand@swbell.net>]

Cturley2 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.
> 
> Just think of the multitude of such games that exist for the Apple II
> models. Sometimes the government does seem to work for the needs of the masses
> after all.  And, it looks like some of the Apple II ftp sites like Asimov and
> ACN just might have more public domain titles than they realize they have.
> 
> Any comments on this?
>

     Interesting. The name of the act appears to imply that some
information might be filed somewhere by a copyright holder in order to
avoid having an out-of-production game copyright expire. (Having it
vaporize after just two years seems a bit extreme.)

     Do you have a URL for the Copyright Information Act of 1995?


Rubywand