Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!enea!dkuug!freja!keld
From: keld@freja.dk (Keld J|rn Simonsen)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: Copyright Law Revisited
Message-ID: <4146@freja.dk>
Date: 25 Oct 88 00:40:34 GMT
References: <1930@vaxwaller.UUCP>
Organization: DIKU, U of Copenhagen, DK
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I found the copyright article very interesting, but of very limited
value outside the USA. Could you please state that the article
is only valid in the USA, if you publish a new revision ? 

The international copyright convention as ratified by the
Berner Union countries (including Canada and most of Europe)
contains no such thing as "public domain" - all works with
a certain intellectual effort are automatically born with a copyright
of the intellectual maker. Therefore the (c) should be a sufficient
indication of the copyright. 

I have heard that this is not so in some American countries,
and thus you have to state "All rights reserved" to be protected
here, the story tells.

Keld Simonsen, U of Copenhagen