Yes, copyright is automatic. What's your point? A work still has to be creative enough to be copyrightable, you cannot copyright data like e.g. a list of telephone numbers, and even then, you can't copyright e.g. fashion designs.
Note that treaties are only binding to governments, they don't apply to the population in general. The statute itself was passed in the Berne Convention Implementation Act of 1988. On Wednesday, March 27, 2013 10:52:07 AM UTC-7, psema4 wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 1:43 PM, Austin William Wright > <[email protected] <javascript:>> wrote: > > If a work is creative enough to be covered by copyright (there's no rule > for > > code, but usually anything not straightforward and more than a few > lines), > > then yeah, you need some form of license. > > Um... Berne Convention? > > "Copyright under the Berne Convention must be automatic; it is > prohibited to require formal registration (note however that when the > United States joined the Convention in 1988, it continued to make > statutory damages and attorney's fees only available for registered > works)." > > < > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berne_Convention_for_the_Protection_of_Literary_and_Artistic_Works> > > > > -- > Scott Elcomb > @psema4 on Twitter / Identi.ca / Github & more > > Atomic OS: Self Contained Microsystems > http://code.google.com/p/atomos/ > > Member of the Pirate Party of Canada > http://www.pirateparty.ca/ > -- -- Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ Posting guidelines: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
