[Fwd: Re: [OFFTOPIC] List of Online Hindi books]

[Sudhakar Chandra <thaths@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Damn Suresh and his Reply-To. ;-)

Thaths

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Subject: Re: [LIG] [OFFTOPIC] List of Online Hindi books
Date: Tue, 26 Dec 2000 11:20:06 -0800
From: Sudhakar Chandra <thaths@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Organization: A Doubleplusgood Mega Corporation
To: Suresh Ramasubramanian <mallet@xxxxxxx>
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Suresh Ramasubramanian proclaimed:
> On 23/12/00 21:30 +0600, Devdas Bhagat spewed into the LI bitstream:
> > Can you even renew copyright? AFAIK, only Trademarks can be renewed.
> copyright on literary works / works of art can be renewed.  if not
> renewed for a century then the copyright lapses and the work is
> public domain
>  see stuff abt the project gutenberg for more details - http://www.promo.net/pg


Actually, under normal circumstances, the copyright can only be extended
upto a certain maximum.  One cannot keep renewing the copyright beyond a
certain limit.  IIRC, the limit is x years after death of author or y years
after first copyrighted (whichever is longer).  Don't exactly recall what x
and y are.

The law can be bent.  As was demonstrated by Disney Corp. The Copyright (or
Trademark.  I don't recall exactly) of their work was reaching the maximum
allowed period.  They twisted the arms of the US Congress (under the guise
of "protecting children") to give them special consideration and extended
the thing for another 100 years.

Thaths

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