Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!bloom-beacon!oberon!bbn!rochester!pt.cs.cmu.edu!b.gp.cs.cmu.edu!Ralf.Brown@B.GP.CS.CMU.EDU From: Ralf.Brown@B.GP.CS.CMU.EDU Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: Prior use of the name "ARC" Message-ID: <23325a26@ralf> Date: 17 Sep 88 13:27:18 GMT Sender: netnews@pt.cs.cmu.edu Lines: 16 In-Reply-To: <3515@tekigm2.TEK.COM> In article <3515@tekigm2.TEK.COM>, timothym@tekigm2.TEK.COM (Timothy D Margeson) writes: }Hi Agin...:-) } }The prior use of ARC as stated by KPETERSEN is dated around 1960, and }therefore falls under the copyrigth statute of limitations (17 years, unless }a renewal is applied for, or sufficient modifications to the work have been }made to protect the work in it's majority). You must be thinking of patents, which are 17-year monopolies. Copyrights until 1974(?) were 28 years, renewable for another 28. Copyrights now are 75 years or author's life + 50, whichever is longer. -- UUCP: {ucbvax,harvard}!cs.cmu.edu!ralf -=-=-=- Voice: (412) 268-3053 (school) ARPA: ralf@cs.cmu.edu BIT: ralf%cs.cmu.edu@CMUCCVMA FIDO: Ralf Brown 1:129/31 Disclaimer? I |Ducharm's Axiom: If you view your problem closely enough claimed something?| you will recognize yourself as part of the problem.