Re: Asimov Site

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

The 1790 Copyright Act (the first federal Copyright Act) included an initial
term of 14 years which could be renewed for an additional term of 14 years
if certain formalities were met, for a total of 28 years of protection.

"**** ****" <***@***.com> wrote in message
news:wiXp5.4258$d8.1573703@typhoon.southeast.rr.com...

>     Even copyright could be a good thing, if it weren't so ludicrously
> exaggerated. Fourteen years was good enough at the birth of our nation,
and
> lord knows an author would have had trouble making as much in that time
> length as one would now in a year's time.