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From: Patent Tactics, George Brock-Nannestad The following is an exchange that has not been received by me in their original form, although I expect it was distributed via ARSCLIST. However, an irresistible urge to comment anyway had to be given in to (best way of getting rid of a temptation, according to Oscar Wilde). > At 11:25 AM 6/21/2005 -0500, Karl Miller wrote: > >On Sun, 19 Jun 2005, Mike Richter wrote: > > > > > From my point of view, it would be sufficient to define as "abandoned" > > > any > > > copyright not exercised for a defined term. > > > >I like that idea but... > > > >I am reminded of the effort it took for Mad Magazine to determine that > >whatever ownership might have existed for the image of Alfred E. Newman, had > >been abandoned. > ----- but he did not worry. Kind regards, George