Re: [VAL] Wally's original plans built trailers

[Brad Norgaard <stream2699@xxxxxxx>]

Current copyright protection covers intellectual property for the
originator/creator for that person's lifetime plus fifty years. It is
considered intellectual property though and can be handed down in a will to
another and then it becomes that person's property until fifty years after
that person's death or willed again...and so on and so on. Copyright
protection exists even if the creator has not filed a copyright with the
federal copyright office on the intellectual property. Protection exists at
the moment of creation i.e.: the click of the photographer's shutter, the
pencil is lifted from the final stroke of a blueprint, the final note is
written on a musical piece, etc. Proof of ownership is what usually is
challenged in courts of law.

The laws changed in the last 30 years, I forget which year. Copyright
protection used to be for 17 years and then it could be renewed for 17 add'l
years but only once, then it went into the public domain. The music industry
and the internet have played significant roles in these changes. More
changes are expected in the near future through legislation.


Brad Norgaard
Phoenix
'59 Trade Wind Twin
VAC #2699, TCT