Fytton Rowland wrote:
Copyright is, I believe, significantly different in the UK and the USA. In the UK, as Iain says, copyright exists as soon as a text is written by its author, whether it is published or not. In the USA, copyright has to be registered.
This has not been true for many years now. See p.3 col. 2 of http://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ15a.pdf
In Europe there are moral rights (such as the right to be identified as the author of your work) which remain with the author even if the copyright is transferred to another.
And a very sensible system this is, which the US should adopt. Giving up ownership need not entail giving up authorship. Regards, -- Christopher D. Green Department of Psychology York University Toronto, Ontario, Canada M3J 1P3 e-mail: chri...@yorku.ca phone: 416-736-5115 ext. 66164 fax: 416-736-5814 http://www.yorku.ca/christo/ ============================ .
