That is a *very* interesting issue,
Lee.
I have no
actual recollection of ever seeing a published product that had a different
copyright declaration for individual chapters before. How would someone,
who wanted to isolate one of 16 chapters, do this? Is it legal to put 16
copyright declarations into one book? Could people not argue that the one in the
front cover should apply to the entire
product.
Is this something that so
far only exists as a hypothetical example or can you name me a real product
where someone has declared copyright on part of a book or magazine in their
section 15?
How did they copyright the rest of their book? Did
they do a declaration in the front of their book that said every thing
except one particular chapter was copyright (surly that could be
misinterpreted to mean that the OGLed chapter wasn't copyrighted)? Did they
print 16 copyright declarations in one block (so that they could pluck out one
for their section 15)? I always thought that
copyright declarations needed to be blanket things that covered an entire
product. If that is the case then wouldn't your section 15 options already be
tied by established conventions of copyright
declarations?
I couldn't find any information
about how the Berne Convention governs "copyright splitting" Where can I
find more about this specific thing?
David
Shepheard
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