Russell McOrmond scripsit:
> > > If NASA has the ability to apply a license in a foreign country to a
> > > works that is in the public domain in the USA, then does not any other US
> > > citizen have the ability to apply a license as well? If these other US
> > > citizens do not, then does NAS
Lets continue down this line of thinking... (just trying to understand
the logic people have presented...)
On Tue, 17 Feb 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Russell McOrmond scripsit:
>
> > If NASA has the ability to apply a license in a foreign country to a
> > works that is in the public do
Russell McOrmond scripsit:
> If NASA has the ability to apply a license in a foreign country to a
> works that is in the public domain in the USA, then does not any other US
> citizen have the ability to apply a license as well? If these other US
> citizens do not, then does NASA?
Why, because
I do not have an answer to the specific question, but I suspect the answer
may reside in a treaty or an international agreement that is not a treaty.
The Uruguay Round Agreements Act (URAA), for instance, allows works in the
public domain in the U.S. to be scooped out of the public domain
retroacti
On Tue, 17 Feb 2004, Arnoud Engelfriet wrote:
> I don't think it is legal in the USA to apply your own license to
> a public domain work. How can you license something to which you
> do not have a copyright?
This is just some of the odd things we end up if we play the word game
we were being l
Russell McOrmond scripsit:
> It appears that with US government created works that every US
> citizen has the right to apply licenses to the work,
Not so. See my other posting.
> Given that term expiry is not the only way for a work to
> enter the public domain, and term expiry can be differen
Russell McOrmond wrote:
> On Mon, 16 Feb 2004, Russell Nelson wrote:
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> > > So Americans can ignore the civil-servant version of the NOSA license with
> > > impunity, but not so Australians.
[This was in response to my quoting from the Berne Convention to
show that co
I believe that the OSI is not USA only, so I hope this question does
receive some discussion.
On Mon, 16 Feb 2004, Russell Nelson wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> > So Americans can ignore the civil-servant version of the NOSA license with
> > impunity, but not so Australians.
>
> Inter
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