At 09:35 PM 5/7/2001 -0400, you wrote:
>Robin writes:
>> ...
>>Unless there was a copyright notice attached to it, posting it
>>makes it public property.
>
> This used to be true before the US Copyright law was changed to fit
>the international standards (Berne Convention?) ... [snip]
This would only have been true in the US, of course. And the last time I
checked, the Internet wasn't entirely contained within the US. :-)
Automatic protection has existed in many countries outside the US long
before 1988- most countries adopted the automatic protection parts of the
Berne Convention very rapidly indeed (and some may have even required
similar protections before the Convention did). Australia's Copyright Act
was enacted in 1968, for example, and provided for automatic protection.
The Berne Convention has been around since 1886, but I am not sure at what
point automatic protection was added. I'm pretty sure it was before
Australia's Act, however, and it was almost certainly before 1988.
P.S. Now we are getting really pedantic. :-)
-- Archer http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/6413/End.
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