discuss: statistics
Subject:
Re: statistics
From:
David Merrill ####@####.####
Date:
7 Aug 2001 02:38:42 -0000
Message-Id: <20010806223735.A22585@lupercalia.net>
On Mon, Aug 06, 2001 at 11:17:19PM -0300, Jorge Godoy wrote:
> David Merrill ####@####.#### writes:
>
> >
> > The LDP's webservers are in the US, however.
>
> I'm not a US citizen. I'm not living under US laws. I don't know a lot
> of US laws. In my country, this law might be different with regards to
> this kind of thing (it happens to be almost the same, but the context
> is different). How am I supposed to accept that US copyright laws
> applies to a document of mine that I've donated to LDP and whose main
> site ISN'T LDP?
I think this is pretty much universal, but only cited US law because
that's all I am really familiar with. But I think pretty much
anywhere, a work is by default copyrighted. Or at least in countries
covered by the Berne convention.
> Sorry for this, but I think the US are too "US-centric" on this
> aspect. To protect its knowledgement is OK, but imposing this on
> contents that are available in there is not. Or I could say the same
> about LDP's documents available here in .br. It just doesn't make
> sense (laws don't always make sense...)
Yeah, I agree.
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