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From: Laurence Berland <stuyman@confusion.net>
To: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
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Subject: Re: Copyright Contradiction in libalias
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On Wed, 22 Aug 2001, Garrett Wollman wrote:

> <<On Wed, 22 Aug 2001 20:04:46 +0400, "Andrey A. Chernov" <ache@nagual.pp.ru> said:
> 
> > I mean common part of international copyright law.
> 
> There is no such thing as ``international copyright law''.  There is
> only national copyright law.  Parties to the various international
> copyright conventions agree to harmonize their national law to meet a
> particular standard of protection, but I'm not aware of any case where
> such a convention was enacted directly into law.  (In the case of the
> US, the Berne Convention was implemented as amendments to title 17 of
> the United States Code.  US law provides for only a limited right of
> attribution, which does not apply to ``literary works''.)

Also worth noting, the US spent a looooong time trying to reform its
copyright law to meet the Berne convention.  It didn't work out very well,
the process was and is a mess, and noone is happy (well, maybe the
MPAA)...

US copyright law sucks, plain and simple.


> 
> -GAWollman
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Laurence Berland
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