Subj : Out of the woodwork
To : Bj�rn Felten
From : Sean Dennis
Date : Thu Nov 08 2018 06:59 am
Hello Bj�rn,
06 Nov 18 22:56 at you wrote to Ward Dossche:
BF> First of all: US copyright law does *not* apply outside of the USA.
You're right, it doesn't, however, you've never heard of the Berne Convention
then (of which all countries represented in this echo are members of)?
From the Wikipedia article about the Berne Convention:
"Since almost all nations are members of the World Trade Organization, the
Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights requires
non-members to accept almost all of the conditions of the Berne Convention."
So pretty much, yes, there's common copyright law that applies in each
signatory state, as well as further refinements in each state.
So, yes, if Mr. Jennings wanted to push the issue, he could enforce both his
copyright and trademark.
But to avoid all of that, one could put what they publish under one of the
many Creative Commons licenses.
Later,
Sean
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