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From: jcb@lfcs.ed.ac.uk (Julian Bradfield)
Newsgroups: news.misc
Subject: Copyright on Usenet (was Re: The Cincinnatus Society of Pinheads)
Summary: What about foreigners?
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Date: 25 Oct 88 10:48:40 GMT
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Would some of you experts care to comment on the position of Usenet
articles originating outside the United States? For those of us in the
civilized world, the previous debate is irrelevant, since everything
I write is copyright in the United Kingdom the moment it's written.
But, what, under U.S. law, is the status of my foreign-produced
articles that are imported to the U.S.A. by the news mechanism? The
general tenor of U.S. law used to be that foreigners don't have any
rights if they let their work into the U.S., but I thought you were
moving towards the Berne convention rules.
(You might keep the discussion here, since misc.legal doesn't go to Europe.)