[Coco] [Color Computer] Need to know if I'm in safe waters here

[shadow at shadowgard.com]

On 22 Jul 2007 at 3:25, James Diffendaffer wrote:

> There is a possible solution to your delima.
> 
> Put everything on the DVD in encrypted files.
> Release the keys as you get permission from different authors and
> release all the keys when all copyrights have expired.

You *do* realize that under current law, the earliest any of those 
copyrights will expire in 2050? And that's only for stuff where a 
company owns the copyright and it was copyright 1980.

Current rules are that for stuff copyright to an author or authors, 
the copyright expires 70 years after the *last* one of the authors 
dies. 

Copyright to a company, it's 70 years from date of copyright.

And it may well be extended again before then. You see, Disney corp 
doesn't want the earliest Mickey Mouse cartoons to go out of 
copyright, so they lobby Congress every time it gets close...

> I wouldn't use names that make sense either so people don't even know
> that the files are for each encrypted archive until the key is
> released for it.

Strong encryption now will be easy to break in a few years. Computers 
keep getting more powerful.

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Leonard Erickson (aka shadow)
shadow at shadowgard dot com