-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 On 05/19/2014 09:18 AM, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 10:30 PM, Jerry Stuckle > <jstuc...@attglobal.net> wrote: > >> In fact, in the United States, to copyright something you have to >> provide a copy of the material to the Copyright Office. So there >> is always at least one copy of something available. > > Are you sure of that? I thought most jurisdictions' copyright laws > were such that, in the absence of information to the contrary, any > published work should be assumed to be copyrighted. Once upon a time, you did have to provide a copy of something to the Copyright Office to get copyright protection for that thing. I believe this is what was known as "registering" the copyright. Under later revisions to the law (I believe associated with the Berne Convention on Copyright), the requirement to register the copyright was removed, and all works were held to receive copyright protection automatically. Registration is helpful in documenting the copyright, and in some cases may be required for some remedies under the law, but is not required for actually getting a copyright. I am not aware of how common it is for copyrights to actually be registered nowadays, but I know that many, many published works are not registered. If a copy were indeed required to be registered with the Copyright Office, that would sharply reduce or potentially eliminate the "no non-DRMed copy available to enter the public domain" objection to DRM. Since that is not the case, however, that objection stands. - -- The Wanderer Secrecy is the beginning of tyranny. A government exists to serve its citizens, not to control them. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQIcBAEBCgAGBQJTegZ9AAoJEASpNY00KDJrHgcP/jhvv/kmQO46Ws3VVrWsoL9t CMeP2AwYxTA+yeStivvSWkmJYRyZv4HipwIGXVgxL/Y4FPhp3X4Mo6VeqUvnIoS9 RAFpQYWkGgfgC+x+BfPQ0wfkK4PmwNWLk+D5KYvWDVLEpVQ3cnInLu5DtwCoTbqp fcs5tnrPJKExt2OdkXjaJV63nV6t0GC7uv0Bn6BvFFaWFgGLahnHfsm31SZPrODj /SlYH1nxcSt9knp9kna914gY1NGopIgnMawvFib7pwesymH9KFCYik5k5peAWsA3 EffQxjEHL0nVHIi5W2fDdQB4VA6H5CWm+CxNl3jKnINZQDTtU47yx4rW+x4Srujs Ygc3U3ZZs7kmJCCUtT4C3otf07z+cd20GfR2goyYW1T4XY3kpZu01cXfM7HQFP9M fcSzcKB4QHkD2x/itxVs5GTX3M7M+bX3AT9bt/Et0G2V2v6l43Q7kiUm0kQ6sPO7 24M/iAMwiOfDybgT7CGX/by+3L5XPo1JgeQ1XbD1jIPZOc/urMrXIHnTB86nkL0+ OcSPDaBrAxe7Y1+HxB6QaIYIMPpYZPiMbU05SH9kJkbMbM9JwRRG7cCuzXLWWqXE HIwxRJ34necZumk/1fLHfr2Y8rWH20JkN3/K2DBujvAwMbgdjak2jctx1DRt5sfA vk9djXpP6U78pKEu3aqJ =XxxQ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/537a067d....@fastmail.fm
