O’Reilly Adopts 1790 Copyright Durations

John Hubbard writes “Tech book publisher O’Reilly & Associates have Announced they are adopting the Founders Copyright program, putting a maximum 28-year copyright term on their titles. This is significantly shorter than the current legal limit on copyright durations. Although thirty-year-old computer science manuals aren’t in particularly high demand, this is a good move towards restoring the
“growth” rate of the public domain. “