[Gllug] Black day

[colin z robertson]

On Thu, 2003-01-16 at 17:38, Dylan wrote:
> But the exception was made because when the bequest was made the law held that 
> the rights would be property of the hospital in perpetuity. The 1988 act 
> changed that, so an exception is made to maintain the status quo. I can 
> imagine the hospital trusties complaining about the (marginal) loss of 
> income.

But how can that be so? Unless I am very much mistaken we did not have
perpetual copyrights in 1837.

colin

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