Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2001 10:10:15 -0700 (PDT) From: Laurence Berland <stuyman@confusion.net> To: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> Cc: "Andrey A. Chernov" <ache@nagual.pp.ru>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Copyright Contradiction in libalias Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.96.1010822095506.2617A-100000@euphoria.confusion.net> In-Reply-To: <200108221646.f7MGkwv60973@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
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On Wed, 22 Aug 2001, Garrett Wollman wrote: > <<On Wed, 22 Aug 2001 20:04:46 +0400, "Andrey A. Chernov" <ache@nagual.pp.ru> said: > > > I mean common part of international copyright law. > > There is no such thing as ``international copyright law''. There is > only national copyright law. Parties to the various international > copyright conventions agree to harmonize their national law to meet a > particular standard of protection, but I'm not aware of any case where > such a convention was enacted directly into law. (In the case of the > US, the Berne Convention was implemented as amendments to title 17 of > the United States Code. US law provides for only a limited right of > attribution, which does not apply to ``literary works''.) Also worth noting, the US spent a looooong time trying to reform its copyright law to meet the Berne convention. It didn't work out very well, the process was and is a mess, and noone is happy (well, maybe the MPAA)... US copyright law sucks, plain and simple. > > -GAWollman > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message > Laurence Berland http://www.isp.northwestern.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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