Who owns old icons?

[Judy Perry]

Thanks, Richard, Kay & Mark (not in any particular order other than my
late-night, brain-addled one)!

I forget now what I was going to say... uhhhh.... Oh, yeah, the icons.
 Yeah, they're old, 1-bit, whatever...

But they're still WAYYY COOOL in some cases!

Newer ain't always better...  I can't tell you how many times I've
reached out for the beautiful simplicity of the stack icon, or the
speaker icon, the arrows... etc.

Sheer simplistic beauty.  I LOVED that screen with all of the
miniature graphics.  I still keep around an old OS9 egg-shaped
original iMac just for that purpose!  (well, okay, that and running
the FLYINGCOLORS kidpix-on-steroids app that's only OS9).

Apple didn't hire an artist who specialized in miniaturization for nothing!

24-bit new crap is still crap...

Judy


On Sun, Aug 3, 2008 at 2:03 PM, Richard Gaskin
<ambassador at fourthworld.com> wrote:
> In spite of any statements from Apple Europe, the last official public
> statement from any authorized representative from Apple's heaquarters in
>  Cupertino was:
>
>  "There have been some rumors about us canceling HyperCard,
>   which are totally bu||sh*t."
>   - Steve Jobs, October 1998, CAUSE Conference
>
> You can enjoy an audio clip of that here: <http://www.ihug.org/>
> AFAIK, no public statement to the contrary has ever been issued from Apple's
> main office.
>
> But no matter how much fun we may have with Jobs' quote, the current status
> of a product's availability has no bearing at all on its copyright
> protection.
>
> Before I continue, California state law requires me to include this
> disclaimer:  "I am not an attorney.  If you need an attorney you should
> consult the services of a qualified professional in your area."
>
> With that out of the way, here's the dope:
>
>   Works created on or after January 1, 1978
>
>   The following rules apply to published and unpublished works:
>
>    * For one author, the work is copyright-protected for the life
>      of the author plus 70 years.
>
>    * For joint authors, the work is protected for the life of the
>      surviving author plus 70 years.
>
>    * For works made for hire, the work is protected for 95 years
>      from the first publication or 120 years from the date of its
>      creation, whichever is less.
>
> <http://www.nolo.com/article.cfm/pg/2/objectId/D0C278CD-7D19-4EAD-B5E2124009D20220/catId/2EB060FE-5A4B-4D81-883B0E540CC4CB1E/310/276/136/CHK/>
>
> To the best of my knowledge, under both US law and the Berne Convention
> (which now has 163 signing nations) copyright is granted to the creator of a
> work regardless whether the work is ever even published at all, and remains
> in effect similarly without regard for continued publication or any public
> availability of any kind.
>
> You can create an image, sell it for one day, and then discontinue sales
> forever after and your copyright on any copies of that image you sold that
> day will still remain in effect for as long as you live plus 70 years.
>
> In brief, the creator of a work defines how the work is used.  If you don't
> like the terms granted by the creator your only legal options are to wait a
> very long time, or simply to create your own original work and define its
> terms however you like.
>
> With HyperCard this would seem a minor issue, since in addition to being
> owned by someone else its icons are low-res, 1-bit, and in general rather
> dated.  In the 12 years since HyperCard was last updated the rest of the
> world has continued to move forward, and today you can find thousands of
> free full-color icons all over the web:
>
> <http://images.google.com/images?q=free+icons>
>
> --
>  Richard Gaskin
>  Managing Editor, revJournal
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