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O'Reilly Commits to Short Copyright Durations

Posted by michael on from the money-mouth dept.

Sam King writes "I found the following link on the lisnews.com site: O'Reilly Adopts 1790 Copyright Durations. A small but encouraging step taken by a publisher." We should provide direct links to O'Reilly's announcement and the Founder's Copyright website.

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  1. Can't wait till that copyright runs out by jj_johny · · Score: 4, Funny
    Hey, I am going to really look forward to when the copyright runs out on Perl 3 books, Windows 95 annoyances and appleworks 6: the missing manual. In 14 years I will be able pick up all these and write some derivative work without having to worry about the copyright. .... Well unless they renew them for another 14 years. Then those computer manuals might be out of date.

    But seriously, O'Reilly has done a lot more important stuff in copyright but this is laughable. He is not publishing Steamboat Willie or Moby Dick.

  2. Yeah, but the shelf life.... by 1000101 · · Score: 2, Funny

    ooops, fifty other people have already commented on that. :(

  3. O'Reilly Just Beastiality Porn by Suppafly · · Score: 5, Funny

    O'Reilly is nothing more than Animal porn. They just LOOK like computer books. I should know I saw one at a bookstore and it had an animal on the cover.

    Sick-o's

    1. Re:O'Reilly Just Beastiality Porn by Phroggy · · Score: 2, Funny

      I just read them for the programming info.. really! I swear, there's a perfectly reasonable explanation.

      --
      $x='S24;r)>63/* h@<5+oZ)32"5cz';$me='phroggy'x$];
      $x=~y+ -xz+\0-Tx+;print$_^chop$me for split'',$x;
  4. Hold that purchase, I can wait! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Do I understand correctly that all of O'Reilly's titles will be in the Public Domain in 28 years or less?
    Then why have I been buying them, when I can wait?

  5. Woohoo! by AndroidCat · · Score: 5, Funny

    Only 16 more years until my copy of O'Reilly's Programming with Curses goes public domain!

    --
    One line blog. I hear that they're called Twitters now.
  6. Re:Interesting but... by mOdQuArK! · · Score: 5, Funny

    Dunno, I might pay a little to see Micky get eaten by a dinosaur.

  7. Sonny Bono by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny
    The 1998 Sonny Bono Copyright Extension Act increased the copyright term to the author's life plus seventy years

    How about we all plant a tree in his memory to thank him for this idea ;)

    jay