From cowan@ccil.org Sun Sep 21 11:27:29 2003 Return-Path: X-Sender: cowan@mercury.ccil.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (qmail 77212 invoked from network); 21 Sep 2003 18:27:29 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.216) by m13.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 21 Sep 2003 18:27:29 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mercury.ccil.org) (192.190.237.100) by mta1.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 21 Sep 2003 18:27:29 -0000 Received: from cowan by mercury.ccil.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1A18vg-0007kD-00 for ; Sun, 21 Sep 2003 14:27:28 -0400 Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2003 14:27:28 -0400 To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [llg-board] Do not discuss the LLG WRT copyrighted translations! (was Re: [lojban] Question about the number of books) Message-ID: <20030921182728.GO2866@mercury.ccil.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i X-eGroups-From: John Cowan From: John Cowan X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=212516 X-Yahoo-Profile: johnwcowan X-Yahoo-Message-Num: 20744 Robin Lee Powell scripsit: > [1]: I don't care whether you agree with my opinions on the legal > status of this work; it is my determination as Secretary and > Parliamentarian that it is illegal, and that decision is final until > and unless a copyright lawyer chooses to speak up on the subject[2]. > The LLG's stance on this point is *NOT* being opened as a subject > for debate. > The President supports the Secretary one hundred percent. Due to the vagueness of the law, we are not going to touch any American work published after 1922, or any French work published after 1914. (French law extends copyright by up to 45 years past the standard life+70 term in certain cases.) Saint-Exupery died in 1944, and the very earliest that his work could fall into the public domain is 2014. -- Do what you will, John Cowan this Life's a Fiction jcowan@reutershealth.com And is made up of http://www.reutershealth.com Contradiction. --William Blake http://www.ccil.org/~cowan