On Tue, Feb 09, 2010 at 03:30:37PM +0100, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: > Bernd Walter <ti...@cicely7.cicely.de> writes: > > There is no copyright in Germany. > > Yes, there is. Germany is signatory to the Berne convention.
Ah - I was misslead by a lawyer, but I think he wasn't refering to copyright as such, but was just making clear about the old US copyright, which is still in the head of many people. Thanks for clearification. > > I'm not a lawyer, but there are many differences to copyright and I > > think the main one is that the German system automatically protects > > without the need to explicitly declare copyright. > > So does copyright. > > > E.g. there is not need to add copyright lines in sourcecode to prohibit > > others to republish your code in Germany. > > It is not necessary anywhere in the world. It is still a good idea, > just like it's a good idea to mark your laptop with indelible ink, even > though stealing it is just as illegal if you don't. > > > Another difference (to my knowledge) is that the author never looses his > > right (though there are a few rules about age and inheritage) - no > > matter how much it is spread. > > The same goes for copyright (author's lifetime + 70 years) > > > The author can't even sell it, all he can do is sell the right to use it. > > I'm pretty sure there are provisions for "work for hire". > > > You can easily loose copyright and trademarks if you don't care about > > it, but you don't loose your author rights. > > You can *not* lose copyright through dilution, only trademarks. > > At worst, you might lose an infringement suit if the defendant can show > that you knew about *that particular case* long before you filed suit, > but it would not invalidate your copyright, nor would it diminish your > standing in other suits against other infringers. > > DES > -- > Dag-Erling Smørgrav - d...@des.no > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" -- B.Walter <be...@bwct.de> http://www.bwct.de Modbus/TCP Ethernet I/O Baugruppen, ARM basierte FreeBSD Rechner uvm. _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
