Alan Coopersmith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Garrett D'Amore wrote:
> > This last comment has me concerned. I've always assumed that I could
> > repost a document that I downloaded off the Internet, assuming that I
> > didn't agree to anything stating otherwise beforehand.
>
> While I'm not a lawyer, and Sun has plenty of those to give you legal
> advice, to the best of my knowledge, the complete opposite is true -
> unless you are explicitly given permission to reproduce or copyright
> is disclaimed, you cannot legally republish anything you downloaded.
> Under US copyright law & international copyright treaties, no notice
> of copyright or specification of a license is necessary - the assumption
> is that material is copyrighted and that you have no rights to copy it
> unless stated otherwise.
You are unfortunately right - not only in the US.....
The only way to implement such a data sheet repository was to make it
non-public and force people to ask a maintainer to forward you the files.
This would be OK in Europe, I am not sure for the US.
Jörg
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