[GTALUG] Google wins over Oracle in Java API copyright suit

[Russell Reiter]

On Wed, Apr 7, 2021, 2:11 PM D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk, <talk at gtalug.org>
wrote:

> | From: Evan Leibovitch via talk <talk at gtalug.org>
>
> | Since copyright terms exist for many years after the creator's death,
> that
> | fact is far less relevant than one might think.
>
> Absolutely correct.  I was trying to be funny, responding literally to
> what was said.
>
> The work is now in the public domain since Brendan Behan died in 1964
> and the copyright term is death + 50 years.
>

I think that depends on the jurisdiction. Lifetime against all persons +70
years after death in the US.

Of course there is no international copyright protection. The rights must
be registered in every jurisdiction which supports the concept and may be
extended a further 25 years after that on special request of the estate
holder.


> Behan was in jail a bunch of times, but mostly for IRA activities.  He
> was in Borstal for an attempt to set off a bomb at the Liverpool
> docks.  His punishment was pretty mild considering that this was in
> 1939, when World War II started (he was 16 at the time).
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Russell

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buries th’ dead an’ roasts thim aftherward.” F. P. Dunne
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