On Sat, 01 Dec 2007 07:18:34 +0000, Kevin Kofler scripst: > Believe it or not, in most European countries, you can't place anything > in the public domain, especially not after you claimed copyright for it Better to be said -- in most of the European, there is no such thing as public domain de iure. There is a public domain de facto, but it looks slightly differently from the US public domain. Let lawyers deal with junk like this. > In addition, there may be rights which cannot even be licensed, for > example in France, you can't use a work in a way which hurts the > author's image/reputation (and I believe that part of a French > copyright doesn't even expire); That's pretty common all over Europe (knowing only the Czech copyright law though). > (Of course all this is not legal advice, I am not a lawyer, laws may > vary wildly between countries in Europe, and the above paragraph may > contain mistakes. But disclaimers aside, I hope I got the general idea > across. ;-) ) I was a lawyer, but I haven't practice copyright law for years, so IANAL for purposes of this thread as well. Matěj -- The content of this message is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License, Some Rights Reserved. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/us/ -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
