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One other thing people forget to consider when creating intellectual property of closed source or open source is that copyright does not last forever. Every pi
by Pyrodogg 16y ago
One other thing people forget to consider when creating intellectual property of closed source or open source is that copyright does not last forever.
Every piece of intellectual property you create will eventually belong to the public domain, albeit after 75-100+ years.
- prodigal_erik 16y agoIn the US, congress has been extending the terms of copyrights quickly enough that they effectively do last forever, despite an explicit "limited times" requirement in the constitution (which the supreme court unfortunately made meaningless). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perpetual_copyright#United_States http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perpetual_copyright#United_Stat...