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Offline Iggy

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Re: Commodore USA puts Marko Hirv's name back
« on: September 12, 2010, 08:48:46 PM »
George Romero would probably differ with that opinion. Since there was no copyright on the original prints of "Night of the Living Dead" that movie has been in public domain since soon after its release.
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Re: Commodore USA puts Marko Hirv's name back
« Reply #1 on: September 12, 2010, 09:18:07 PM »
Quote from: Piru;578990
At that time US copyright law was different. It changed in 1989 after which point it was no longer necessary to mark your copyright in any way. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_copyright_law#Copyright_notices

You are remarkably well informed.
Does this mean that anything we create that requires technology to be viewed is copyrighted? If that's the case, then even our messages (on forums like this)  would appear to be covered.
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Re: Commodore USA puts Marko Hirv's name back
« Reply #2 on: September 12, 2010, 09:40:30 PM »
That boggles my mind, Trev. Thanks for the clarification. Sounds like a distinct improvement over the copyright protection I grew up with.

Does this affect Marko Hirv's illustration?
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