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boing boing - Happy Public Domain Day: here are the works that copyright extension stole from you in 2015 and Center for the Study of the Public Domain
Current US law extends copyright for 70 years after the date of the author’s death, and corporate “works-for-hire” are copyrighted for 95 years after publication. But prior to the 1976 Copyright Act (which became effective in 1978), the maximum copyright term was 56 years—an initial term of 28 years, renewable for another 28 years. Under those laws, works published in 1958 would enter the public domain on January 1, 2015, where they would be “free as the air to common use.” Under current copyright law, we’ll have to wait until 2054.1 And no published works will enter our public domain until 2019. The laws in other countries are different—thousands of works are entering the public domain in Canada and the EU on January 1.
(Score: 2) by urza9814 on Friday January 02 2015, @05:48PM
Trick question. Without knowing the circumference of the wheels, the fly's landing position, and how long it takes for it to land and then take off again, you can't determine its exact position at the moment of impact and therefore can't determine if it'll be crushed. Or, for that matter, you can't determine that it won't be crushed on its first landing by being unable to take off before the wheel rotates it into the pavement. Oh, and are these street bikes or mountain bikes? If they're mountain bikes the tread might be deep enough for the fly to crawl in a hole and survive the impact! ;)