Arent Storm writes: | If © were to be mandatory to enable copyright at all, the convention would | have to define the codingsystem also...
But very few, if any legislators in any country are going to understand what a "codingsystem" is. They mostly (except for Al Gore ;-) have no clues whatsoever about what goes on inside a computer. Computers are what the secretaries use. Legislators know what a copyright sign is. It's that little 'c' inside a circle. That's all they need to know, and it's all they ever will know. One of the reasons that governments have standards bureaus is to handle problems like this after the fact. "Hmmm, the idiots that we elected to Parliament just passed a law defining the value of pi; how can we phrase the official standards doc so this doesn't cause all our bridges to come tumbling down when the first seagull lands on them?" To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
