17 Dec
2003
17 Dec
'03
11:17 p.m.
Now all you have to do is explain what an "expiration date" is and explain the legal liability of sites that miss cancel messages by accident. .pm Jim Nitchals says:
There is. Copyright 1994 James Nitchals. Duplication and redistribution rights permitted only until the expiration date or issuance of a cancel message by the author.
CD-ROM publishers cannot honor the request except by reissuing the CD-ROM without my content. Anyone who backs up their home directory is safe, but if they redistribute my article after it's expired or cancelled, they are in violation of my copyright.