Z:gnu-www-ja-moglen-harvard-speech-2004--daba38-The second possible way in whi/en

The second possible way in which you could see this kind of lawsuit come up would be, oddly enough, through the thirty-five year termination rule, something that normally would be heralded by people in your position, to say copyright law allows musicians and artists who stupidly signed agreements when they were but small peons, without legal assistance with big companies, thirty-five years later can take it all back, no matter what. They can reset the clock to zero and re- negotiate. I call this the Rod Stewart Salvation Act. [laughter] And while that might be helpful for the artists, much as the music industry hates it, couldn't that also mean that free software coders, who willingly contributed, weren't even blocked by their employers, to contribute to Free Software Movement, could &mdash; down the line &mdash; and thirty-five years isn't that long in the history of Unix, say, &ldquo;We take it all back?&rdquo;