On Sun, Aug 1, 2010 at 5:00 AM, Andrew Dalke <da...@dalkescientific.com> wrote: > On Jul 31, 2010, at 12:30 AM, Egon Willighagen wrote: >> some legal framework kicks in to overcome this problem... >> I'm pretty sure it works something like that with >> copyright on books too... not? > > Not. > > "Orphan works" - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orphan_works > > See also "abandonware" - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abandonware > > While my understanding is US-centric, I think the same applies > to other countries, as a consequence of the Berne convention.
Well, I cannot find the source of my information, so the above links settle that for me. Egon -- Post-doc @ Uppsala University Proteochemometrics / Bioclipse Group of Prof. Jarl Wikberg Homepage: http://egonw.github.com/ Blog: http://chem-bla-ics.blogspot.com/ PubList: http://www.citeulike.org/user/egonw/tag/papers ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Palm PDK Hot Apps Program offers developers who use the Plug-In Development Kit to bring their C/C++ apps to Palm for a share of $1 Million in cash or HP Products. Visit us here for more details: http://p.sf.net/sfu/dev2dev-palm _______________________________________________ Blueobelisk-discuss mailing list Blueobelisk-discuss@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/blueobelisk-discuss
