On Fri, 5 May 2017 14:31:17 -0400
"William L. Thomson Jr." <wlt-ml@o-sinc.com> wrote:

> On Fri, 5 May 2017 18:20:43 +0000
> Erik Närström <erik.narstrom@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I'snt copyright deth of author +70yrs?
>
> Yes for work that is copyright to say you or me. Something copyright
> to an immortal entity I believe is different. Even if Gentoo ended,
> not sure that is the same as a person dying. We essential give up our
> copyright when you put Gentoo's copyright on there. I think it would
> have to include a persons name for the death term to apply.
>
> I believe 95-120 years is the duration.
> https://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ15a.pdf
>

That is for the United States, not the world. Seems most others go with
the author aspect. But I am not sure how that carries over to entities.
At least in the US, this stuff that is copyright Gentoo is bound to
those terms.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_term

OT....
Corporate personhood is one of the most contentious things in the US.
IMHO it was the reason for the civil war not slavery etc. If it was
slavery no need for civil rights. It was about coporate personhood.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_personhood

This amendment, super abstract. Not sure software exists this abstract
in nature....

"As a matter of interpretation of the word "person" in the Fourteenth
Amendment, U.S. courts have extended certain constitutional protections
to corporations. "
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourteenth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution




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William L. Thomson Jr.