Re: COPYLEFT SIGN

From: Markus Kuhn (Markus.Kuhn@cl.cam.ac.uk)
Date: Tue May 16 2000 - 06:24:44 EDT


Antoine Leca wrote on 2000-05-16 09:22 UTC:
> More to the point, Copyright is a law of the United States of America,
> that have nothing to do with my own law. However, I am including it,
> and using this character, just because this is almost requested by
> the US law to (somewhat) prevent piracy.

Just for the record:

The "copyright" word and the copyright sign © are elements of the World
Copyright Convention, which your country (FR) has signed as well. US law
is irrelevant. The copyright symbol is thus in a sense part of French
legislation (even though it is in practice not required thanks to the
Berne convention).

Markus

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Markus G. Kuhn, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK
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