On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 07:10:56PM -1000, robin wrote:
>
> > Date: Tue, 08 May 2001 08:29:09 -0400
> > From: Christopher Lott <lott@ainaz>
>
> > In message <200105080047.TAA19835@landfield.com> you wrote:
> > >Unless there was a copyright notice attached to it, posting it
> > >makes it public property.
> >
> > This is not true. As I understand it, copyight law protects works
> > even if no copyright notice is explicit attached.
>
> Only in the case of photographs. The copyright remaines with the
> photographer.
> The law about text copyright may be different in your country.
I don't know which countries you are talking about, but in all
countries that have signed the Berne convention, all new works are
automatically copyrighted(*) unless explicitly placed into the public
domain. This covers text as well as most other mediums.
Signatories to the Berne convention definitely include the US, all EU
countries, and almost all other industrialised countries.
Bye,
Stephan
(*) I know that works prepared by US government employees in this role
are automatically public domain. I do not know if they are
required to attach a note to this effect to the work, or if there
is an exception for this case.
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