Iván Sánchez Ortega <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > El Viernes, 26 de Septiembre de 2008, Maciej Piechotka escribió: >> I'm not sure how in Your country but I just discovered that I can >> download the episode of series produced by public TV, which according to >> Your theory belongs also to me, but not only I have to pay but it is >> 14-day-valid DRM-protected file. > > No, no, no. Here in Spain, government-funded TV is broadcasted by RTVE, which > is *not* a branch of the goverment, but a state-owned public corporation. It > has all IP rights over the broadcasts. > > However, the spanish Ministry of Public Works can NOT hide ministry order > (e.g.) FOM/956/2008 from view, can NOT prevent me from reading it, can NOT > prevent me from copying it or quoting it or whatever. It can NOT assert any > copyrights over it. > > > We have a difference between works of an agency (or state-owned corp.), and > published laws and rulings of any ministry. The first are subject to > copyright, the latter are not. >
Well - all I advised was to check. > > Now comes the funny part: the Spanish National Geographic Institute (IGN) is > a > government agency and has copyright on any maps it produces. But plans of the > Ministry of Public Works published as part of a ministry order don't (can't) > have copyright. Even if the ministry order includes maps made by the IGN. It > gets messy from there, and as of now we're trying to sort things out in the > talk-es mailing list. > > > IIRC, this dates back to babylonian and roman law - in ancient times, laws > were hidden from public view, and a whole bunch of priests were killed as a > result, followed by everybody being able to review the laws. A student of any > law college would be able to ellaborate on this. > Well - IANAL but I heard the opposite - that they were put on public view near city gates in Babylon. Well - that they were written in 'magic writting' (i.e. any kind on writing in those times) was a different matter. I'm also not sure where specificly was the moment when everybody could review the law. I heard it in traditional law (which was 'in Babylonian times' - merly written down by Hammurabni) - but since then it complicated itself exponentially. However - I am not a law-historiecian. Regards -- I've probably left my head... somewhere. Please wait untill I find it. Homepage (pl_PL): http://uzytkownik.jogger.pl/ (GNU/)Linux User: #425935 (see http://counter.li.org/) _______________________________________________ newbies mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/newbies
