Subj : The so called Intellectual Property
To   : Sean Dennis
From : Bj”rn Felten
Date : Thu Nov 08 2018 13:40:11

 SD> You're right, it doesn't, however, you've never heard of the Berne
 SD> Convention
 SD> then (of which all countries represented in this echo are members of)?

   Yes I've heard about it. It's from 1886. The USA didn't however ratify it 
until more than 100 years later (entered into force for the United States on 
March 1, 1989), when they realized that they started to lose more money than 
they gained from continuing to violate the convention, happily copying and 
selling famous foreign works for centuries.

   From the same Wikipedia article:

The United States initially refused to become a party to the Convention, since 
that would have required major changes in its copyright law, particularly with 
regard to moral rights, removal of the general requirement for registration of 
copyright works and elimination of mandatory copyright notice.

 SD> So, yes, if Mr. Jennings wanted to push the issue, he could enforce both
 SD> his copyright and trademark.

   Unfortunately for him, as I recall it, those claims predate March 1, 1989 so 
I don't think he'd get lucky on an international arena.

 SD> But to avoid all of that, one could put what they publish under one of the
 SD> many Creative Commons licenses.

   That's not how it works.





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