On 19/11/2007, Bernhard R. Link <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > That is only a small part of Urheberrecht from what I can tell. What you mean > is what the law calls "Urheberpersöhnlichkeitsrecht", which is only three > short passages in the "Inhalt des Urheberrechts" part of the law, > directly followed by a long passage about "Verwertungsrechte". > I'm not a lawyer not have any training in that part, but §106A in > http://www.copyright.gov/title17/92chap1.html#106a > looks mostly like this.
The UK legislation I had in mind was Chapter IV of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, which can be found at: http://www.statutelaw.gov.uk/content.aspx?LegType=All+Legislation&title=copyright+designs+and+patents+act+&Year=1988&searchEnacted=0&extentMatchOnly=0&confersPower=0&blanketAmendment=0&sortAlpha=0&TYPE=QS&PageNumber=1&NavFrom=0&parentActiveTextDocId=2250249&ActiveTextDocId=2250376&filesize=49436 I'll leave it to others to decide how that compares with the German legislation. However, in practical terms I don't think anyone has yet put forward anything to suggest that merely forking a free software project would in itself infringe any of the German Urheberrecht rights. John (TINLA)