On 2013-06-21, at 23:49, Groepaz wrote: >> I think this is for literature and similar things. I thought it was >> something like 25 years from the year of first publication for the >> software or other forms of "computer art". > > no, there is no difference between computer programs and literature in that > aspect. and the "X years after publication" (its also 70 years btw) comes into > play when the author is not known, eg for anonymous works. (like mostly > everything released as a "scene demo", for example :)) It seems that the truth lies in between.. I couldn't get my head around it and googled something like this: http://www.caret.cam.ac.uk/copyright/Page171.html Computer generated works 50 years form the end of the calendar year in which the work is made It is UK stuff but shows that in fact there are differences and there is even something like 25 years from the date of publication, but.. at the end there is an example, which says that "computer program [is] defined as a literary work according the 1988 Act" ... and as such it is the 70 you wrote about.. So - basically you are right, although on a different basis ;-) -- SD! Message was sent through the cbm-hackers mailing listReceived on 2013-06-21 23:00:07
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