From: jwkenne@attglobal.net   
      
   On 2014-06-12 05:11:10 +0000, Sea Wasp (Ryk E. Spoor) said:   
      
   > On 6/11/14 11:13 PM, John W Kennedy wrote:   
   >> On 2014-06-12 00:50:30 +0000, Sea Wasp (Ryk E. Spoor) said:   
   >>   
   >>> Alas. By the old copyright rules (14 years, renewable for another   
   >>> 14), Original Trek, the original SW movies, a lot of Old Who, and a   
   >>> lot of the Trek Spinoffs would be out of copyright.   
   >>   
   >> They were 28/28 50 years ago, and were never 14/14/.   
   >>   
   >   
   > 	Never? The original Copyright Act of 1790 specified 14/14.   
      
   Then the source I looked it up in was wrong; it said that 1790 gave a   
   flat 28. The Act of 1710 was 14/14, though.   
      
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