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Re:BlackBerry sells mobile patents to patent troll for $600M by jtbayly on Tuesday February 01, 2022 @09:35AM (#30162927)
How is copyright use it or lose it?
Re:BlackBerry sells mobile patents to patent troll for $600M by pionar on Tuesday February 01, 2022 @09:38AM (#30162978)
Sorry, I should've left that out. Edited.
Re:BlackBerry sells mobile patents to patent troll for $600M by iggldiggl on Tuesday February 01, 2022 @10:22AM (#30163664)
Although interestingly in the EU there is now a small use-it-or-lose-it element with sound recordings, where the copyright on sound recordings expires fifty years after the original recording, or seventy years after the first publication (or at least public playback) by the rightful owner. Cue a number of labels actually officially releasing a number of previously unpublished recordings in order to prevent the corresponding bootlegs of those recordings from falling into the public domain.