[License-review] Section 203(a) copyright recapture

[Bruce Perens]

On 02/17/2012 09:00 PM, John Cowan wrote:
>
> No, I mean license termination by the author or his heirs under Title
> 17, Section 203(a), which permits the unilateral cancellation of any
> license during the period from 35 years to 40 years after it was granted
> (203(a)(3)), and which "may be effected notwithstanding any agreement
> to the contrary" (203(a)(5)).
This is moot to the issue of the CC0 license.

One of the reasons we've not been worried about it is that 35-40 year period. But we/are/  going to hit it for the Numerical Electromagnetic Code (see Wikipedia) and other Academic software that has derivatives still in use.

Section (1) requires a large enough majority in a joint work that most community-developed products could never be recaptured, as far as I can tell.

	Thanks

	Bruce

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