Henning Makholm writes: > But in fact "All rights reserved" is just legal boilerplate that has no > freedom-related consequences at all. It used to be (before the USA joined > the Berne treaty, iirc) that this particular language was a formal > necessity for asserting any copyright in the first place.
It was never even required in the US. There once was some sort of a pan-American copyright treaty and the phrase was required by some member countries. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
