Re: Wishing You Endless Vistas of Microsoft Joy in the New Year

In article <1167766636.35636.0@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Richard Gadsden <richard@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Zebee Johnstone wrote:
50 years after death of author. Which is why the mouse didn't fall
out of copyright 80 or so years after Walt's birth.

No, that's authorial copyright. Performance is 50 years from date of
performance.

In Europe but not in Certain Other Countries. This is a source of
trade friction between the U.S. and the EU. That's why most of the
reissue record labels are based in Europe.

-GAWollman

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Garrett A. Wollman | The real tragedy of human existence is not that we are
wollman@xxxxxxxxxxxxx| nasty by nature, but that a cruel structural asymmetry
Opinions not those | grants to rare events of meanness such power to shape
of MIT or CSAIL. | our history. - S.J. Gould, Ten Thousand Acts of Kindness
.