Re: [GD-General] Pro-IP bill passed the house: User-created content providers, beware!

[Bob <ma...@mb...>]

> In any country that is signatory to Berne Convention, mere authorship
> is sufficient to establish the author's rights; explicit notification
> can affect damages (or help prevent violation out of ignorance), but
> isn't required for protection.
>
> http://www.templetons.com/brad/copymyths.html is worth reading.

Thanks for the link. I have seen more recent works (even from this decade) 
included in those collections, equally without notice or attribution. It may 
also be a matter of unscrupulous pragmatism, as when an original small 
publisher has dissolved, leaving nobody to contest the issue.

However, abolish Copyright and we're in worse shape than pre-Berne 
Convention loopholes, as every work produced  becomes fodder for the 
parasites.

--bob