9 Sep
2022
9 Sep
'22
5:42 a.m.
On Thu, Sep 8, 2022 at 5:29 PM Steve Nickolas <usotsuki(a)buric.co> wrote:
On Thu, 8 Sep 2022, Warner Losh wrote:
It would be nice. At this late date, one wonders what would happen if it
were
litigated again... I suspect that nobody would bother given the small
possible
gain and the huge expense... But it would also reduce shareholder values
to explicitly say there's no copyright here or to clarify that the ancient
licenses
are valid. So we're in this state where it's basically free and clear,
treated like
it's free and clear, but really isn't free and clear.
Warner
But it likely didn't matter, since 32v
likely lost its copyright
protection due to AT&T distributing too many copies without the required
copyright markings. At least that was the preliminary ruling that caused
the suit to be settled... AT&T didn't want it finalized, though the cat
was somewhat out of the bag at this point...
It would be nice if that were an absolute rather than a probably, because
then the status for 32V wouldn't be clouded.