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Article #72831Re: Copyright Law International
From: Terry Carroll
Date: Tue, 14 Jan 1992 19:14
Date: Tue, 14 Jan 1992 19:14
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In article <1992Jan9.161726.1435@canon.co.uk> imlah@canon.co.uk (Bill Imlah) writes: >gumby@Cygnus.COM (David V. Wallace) writes: > >>What does it mean to have a copyright on a anonymous work? Who holds >>it? What rights do they have? > >There are precedents (outside the area of software copyright at least) : >for anonymous texts in a linguistic corpus, the copyright resides with the >person who collects it. > In U.S. law, that would be a copyright in the compilation, but not in the individual pieces in the work. Generally, the copyright would extend only to the originality in the selection and arrangement of the individual pieces. -- The above is my thoughts, not Amdahl's; | Terry Carroll 408/992-2152 The above is not legal advice; | Senior Computer Architect All models over 18 years of age; | Amdahl Corporation Contents sold by weight, not by volume; | tjc50@juts.ccc.amdahl.com Your mileage may vary. | tjc50@amail.amdahl.com
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10b535,dbb0a0d01b386c38 X-Google-Attributes: gid10b535,public X-Google-Thread: 1025b4,9b65913ff4465dcd X-Google-Attributes: gid1025b4,public X-Google-Thread: f5fd2,dbb0a0d01b386c38 X-Google-Attributes: gidf5fd2,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1992-01-14 12:04:21 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!sun-barr!newstop!sun!amdahl!JUTS!tjc50 From: tjc50@ccc.amdahl.com (Terry Carroll) Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss,misc.int-property,misc.legal.computing Subject: Re: Copyright Law International Message-ID: <32lT02ZE08YR01@JUTS.ccc.amdahl.com> Date: 14 Jan 92 19:14:10 GMT References: <946@lysator.liu.se> <1992Jan9.074625.14161@nntp.hut.fi> <GUMBY.92Jan9065838@Cygnus.COM> <1992Jan9.161726.1435@canon.co.uk> Reply-To: tjc50@JUTS.ccc.amdahl.com (Terry Carroll) Organization: Amdahl Corporation, Sunnyvale CA Lines: 20