S100 archive?

[Bob Bradlee]

On Tue, 18 Mar 2008 17:27:00 -0600, woodelf wrote:

>Fred Cisin wrote:

>> yes, the "true" ownership is often not the current availability.
>> Occasionally, a company will go ahead and explicitly move stuff to public
>> domain.  Unfortunately, many will never do that, and a significant part of
>> what is available to us relies on the owner of the copyright not giving a
>> shit.  There is a popular [FALSE] myth that "abandonware" automagically
>> becomes public domain.

>But if it is TRUE abandonware would you have a copywrite  if you have no company?
>-
>> Grumpy Ol' Fred     		cisin at xenosoft.com

In the case of very hard to prove "true" abondonware, the rights reverts back to the author, photographer 
or artist of the origional work. The only person who has any residual claim is the origional creator.

The idea that someone thinks they have a claim to an unauthorized scan or copy is delusional and not 
founded in fact or for that matter any law I am aware of.

FYI: Here in the US copyright is implied on everything published unless stated othewise.
The silly (c) copyright statement is not necessary, recomended but not required.

Bob