Hi, Peter Miller wrote: >> Everything produced in a country that's a signatory to the Berne >> convention (and that's most countries) is *automatically* copyrighted, >> so UNOCHA don't need to claim copyright. > > I am surprised at that. I thought the (c) line on a document was > important.
AFAIK it is. At least in Germany, the situation is this: Anything you produce in Germany automatically has copyright *in Germany*. Many other countries don't have this automatism and in some you actually have to register your work with some authority to gain protection. However, the Berne convention says that adding the (c) plus author plus year will count as having gone through the relevant national procedures in every Berne country. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33" _______________________________________________ legal-talk mailing list legal-t...@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk
