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From: Walter Banks <walter@bytecraft.com>
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Subject: Re: Reasonably priced C11 standard?
Date: Wed, 08 Feb 2012 00:27:45 -0500
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Patrick Scheible wrote:

> Are you certain that no copyright holder ever renewed early?  I'm pretty
> sure that they have.  Possibly when copyright is transfered from one
> holder to another.  Some publishers used to renew very frequently, at
> least so they said on the copyright pages, and I'm not sure what their
> motivation was.

I once was a partner in a publishing house. What you are seeing in
apparently frequent renewals is actually reprints which are usually
done ant the same time incorporating corrections. This is effectively
a new work which gets re-registered so that it is actually covered
by copyright. Books show print history with the registrations.


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