Subject: Re: [stella] Piracy -- copyrights expired? From: "John Saeger" <john@xxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 13 Jan 1998 23:32:17 -0800 |
-----Original Message----- From: Chris Cracknell <crackers@xxxxxxxx> To: stella@xxxxxxxxxxx <stella@xxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Sunday, January 11, 1998 9:41 PM Subject: Re: [stella] Piracy -- copyrights expired? >Before 1982 there were no provisions in the copyright law for the protection >of software. Software was considered by many to be a "usable object" >(meaning a tool, like a hammer or widget calibrator) and not a creative >work so to protect software developers from piracey changes were made >to the copyright act in 1982 to include protection for software. > >Copyright law is not retroactive. Does this mean that games produced prior to 1982 are copyright free? Thanks again, John Saeger -- Stella list is Administered by krishna@xxxxxxxxxxxx <Glenn Saunders> Archives (includes files) at http://www.biglist.com/lists/stella/archives/ Unsub & more at http://www.biglist.com/lists/stella/stella.html +-shameless plugs-------------------------------------------------------+ | Stella documentary at http://www.primenet.com/~krishna | | Nick's VCS links via http://www.primenet.com/~nickb/atariprg.htm | | Write the best game, win framed autographs of famous Atari alumni!! | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+
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