* Sean Kellogg ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [040713 10:55]: > With great respect to the 95% of the world population that does not live > within the US... the great majority of the world does operate under laws > derived from the common law system, which is embodied within the restatement > of law (there is one for each area of law). Even in the civil law societies > (most of continental Europe and Japan) the law has been adopted from the > United States post World War II, especially in the area of contract law where > global economies have force a homogenization of the law. So while your > statement is certainly true and should always be remembered... it doesn't > make the fact that this is the law in most places any less true.
That's not true. It's just the other way, the Berne Convention is a typical civil law construct. Cheers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ PGP 1024/89FB5CE5 DC F1 85 6D A6 45 9C 0F 3B BE F1 D0 C5 D1 D9 0C
