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Copyright timesCopyright timesPosted Jun 18, 2003 13:03 UTC (Wed) by dark (subscriber, #8483)In reply to: The amended SCO complaint by jarek Parent article: The amended SCO complaint
In the US, under current laws, copyrights held by a corporation expire 95 years after publication or 120 years after creation, whichever comes first. That would put the UNIX code somewhere in 2090 (and now you know why the comments at the top of each file claim the code is "unpublished"). Project Gutenberg has a page about this. However, in practice, nothing will expire in 2090 because the copyright durations will have been extended by that time. The practical duration of copyright is: (age of Mickey Mouse) + (0 to 20 years). This will remain true until the human race rises up against its corporate overlords.
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