Angelo Schneider wrote:
> What is the Berne Convention? http://www.law.cornell.edu/treaties/berne/overview.html > I only know the term in conjunction with international treties to > respect each others copy right laws. Just so. It also sets minimum standards; for example, the "moral right to be known as the author" is protected in some countries (France) but not others (in the U.S. it is only allowed to visual works, not to textual or audio works). But the right to control the making of derivative works is everywhere protected under Article 12. (There are no longer any important countries outside Berne.) Of course, there are de minimis exceptions: you will not be sued for making marginal notes in your copy of someone else's book, even though book+notes is technically a derivative work, or translating the book into Bulgarian for your own use. But technically these are violations, and cases have turned on them. -- Not to perambulate || John Cowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> the corridors || http://www.reutershealth.com during the hours of repose || http://www.ccil.org/~cowan in the boots of ascension. \\ Sign in Austrian ski-resort hotel -- license-discuss archive is at http://crynwr.com/cgi-bin/ezmlm-cgi?3