Hockey wrote:I thought copyright expired in 20 years...
Holy crap dude you need to keep up on tech news! These greedy groups have gone so far as to copyright "Happy Birthday" and want to charge for every time it's sung. Lots of people will literally stoop to
any low level just to make money. Twenty years? That's a drop in the bucket now from what I faintly remember reading maybe three or four years ago?
Any way do a look up on copyright length. It's dramatically increased. For example all the stories Disney are still copyrighted I think? I don't want to get too in to politics (there are
some iron clad rules around here for better or worse

) though if you do the research you'll be amazed at how much these companies/corporations/groups are trying to lock down content.
I think I've read in the semi-recent past that some corporations are actually somehow claiming I think patents for genes...GENES dude! How the heck do you patent mother nature?
But then again we live in a world where if a large company runs out of any one part they need for their factory they literally loose thousands of dollars a
minute that they aren't producing parts. I'm not a conspiracy theory nut but realistically people
really have been conspiring to great depths. I used to be surprised at a lot of things in life, now I just chuckle when I hear these sort of things people come up with.
