Re: U.S. government works in other countries

2004-02-13 Thread jcowan
Richard Schilling scripsit: The WTO countries are supposed to recognize US copyright, as the US is supposed to recognize the IP of the other WTO countries. Easier said then done, but it's there. Indeed. But are the Berne countries supposed to recognize our *non*-copyrights? The U.S. as an

U.S. government works in other countries

2004-02-12 Thread John Cowan
The draft NOSA implies that U.S. government works, though in the public domain in the U.S., are subject to copyright in other countries. Is this really true? The Berne Convention seems ambiguous on the case; it seems to me that it doesn't clearly foresee the case of works which are never in