On Wed, 22 Aug 2001, Garrett Wollman wrote:
> <<On Wed, 22 Aug 2001 20:04:46 +0400, "Andrey A. Chernov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>
> > I mean common part of international copyright law.
>
> There is no such thing as ``international copyright law''. There is
> only national copyright law. Parties to the various international
> copyright conventions agree to harmonize their national law to meet a
> particular standard of protection, but I'm not aware of any case where
> such a convention was enacted directly into law. (In the case of the
> US, the Berne Convention was implemented as amendments to title 17 of
> the United States Code. US law provides for only a limited right of
> attribution, which does not apply to ``literary works''.)
Also worth noting, the US spent a looooong time trying to reform its
copyright law to meet the Berne convention. It didn't work out very well,
the process was and is a mess, and noone is happy (well, maybe the
MPAA)...
US copyright law sucks, plain and simple.
>
> -GAWollman
>
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Laurence Berland
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