Re: Asimov Mirror Sites Access Information

[pausch@saafNOSPAM.se (Paul Schlyter)]

In article <Dk6W4.71$Xe.524457@dca1-nnrp1.news.digex.net>,
Frank Townsend <ftownsen@iamdigex.net> wrote:
 
> Jay:
> 
> Since you bring this up, let me alert you to a fact regarding the
> seriousness with which Project Gutenberg regards copyright.
> 
> Why do you suppose that the most "recent" Tom Swift Etext on Project
> Gutenberg is _Tom Swift And His Electric Locomotive_?
> 
> Answer: because the next Swift in the series (Flying Boat) was published in
> 1923, and the only Etexts on which the copyrights are *sure* to have expired
> are ones published *before* 1/1/23 (at least for the next two decades).
> 
> This is why PG's newsletters say things like "We hope you will take the
> opportunity to volunteer to do your favorite book[s] from before 1923."
> 
> Project Gutenberg follows this policy even on texts which have no "normal
> market" (except perhaps among book collectors).
> 
> Why should Apple2 software be treated any differently?
 
Perhaps because software ages much more rapidly than books?  The copyright
laws were created for books, not for software.
 
But of course if you're running a firm which sells a CD-ROM with old
Apple II software, and if you profit on it, you'd better be sure that
all software on the CD-ROM is either PD/freeware or published with
permission, or else you may run into trouble.
 
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