On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 03:09:02PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 02:05:54AM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > * Copyright requires the protected subject to be "original". > > I think that principle is unique to the U.S.; in fact, that's the whole > *point* of this subthread!
I think it's not fundamental to copyright, and definitely not in the Berne convention, but I think that nonetheless it is shared by other countries too - at least in some form. The EU directive on computer program copyright appears to be equivalent, if not exactly the same. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -><- |
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