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Maybe a silly question: do copyrights for games (art or whatever) ever expire?

• tptacek 14y ago
  Yes, but not for a long time.
  • astrodust 14y ago
    By "long time" you mean "as long as large copyright holders lobby to keep extending the window" which could mean "never" in practice.
    • tptacek 14y ago
      Why don't we just settle on "so long as to make expiry irrelevant for video games".
      • astrodust 14y ago
        I don't know what you're complaining about. Pong will be public domain in 2092.
• stonemetal 14y ago
  I believe this would be the correct copyright term for a game made by a game company.(every body who made it works for the game company so it should all fall under work for hire). Instead of the usual death + 70. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries%27_copyright_length http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries%27_copyright_... 95 years from publication or 120 years from creation whichever is shorter (anonymous works, pseudonymous works, or works made for hire, published since 1978)
• astrodust 14y ago
  Same as for anything. In the United States there's a chart for looking up rights and determining if a property has reverted to the public domain: http://copyright.cornell.edu/resources/publicdomain.cfm http://copyright.cornell.edu/resources/publicdomain.cfm 1923 is the base-line year for any works with a proper copyright notice. 1977 for any works at all, as the requirement for a notice or registration was eliminated.