"Rickard A. Parker" wrote:
> 
> Cornell University has a great website on copyright at
>     http://www.copyright.cornell.edu/
> In particular look at this page. It has the dates:
>     http://www.copyright.cornell.edu/public_domain/


The copyright posts recently reminded me that I sent an email to the
copyright infringement email address at a website saying that
something they had up was, indeed, a copyright infringement.  This was
just an attempt to get them to do something before the real copyright
owner found out about the "theft."  I haven't heard back and the site
still has the offending material.  I'm going to email again and put
the fear of God in them (or at least get them thinking how much nicer
$150,000 would be in their OWN pocket.)  So I did an internet search
and came up with a couple of pages that have the necessary scary
material.  I thought that it might interest a few TSE listers too.

I never ran into or heard of the FairUseNetwork website before but a
quick look shows that it might be very nice.  There is also the
copyright office website.  These all deal with U.S. law of course.

http://www.copyright.gov/

http://www.unc.edu/~unclng/copy-corner66.htm
COPYRIGHT CORNER
Increased penalties of up to five years imprisonment and $250000 in
fines were available only if the infringement involved reproduction or
distribution of ...

http://www.fairusenetwork.org/reference/c-infringement.php
Fair Use Network: Copyright 101 - InfringementPenalties for Infringement.
If a use is found to be a copyright infringement, the court may order
any one of a number of possible "remedies" for the ...

Regards,
    Rick Parker