27 Sep
2013
27 Sep
'13
12:34 a.m.
Quoting Trent W. Buck (trentbuck@gmail.com):
Rick Moen wrote:
US copyright extensions have _not_ had retroactive effect: The Sonny Bono act did not remove any works from the public domain.
They're retroactive in the sense that they extend the copyright lifetime of works already published, though.
Yes. The term 'retroactive' is arguably overloaded in this context.