At Fri, 5 May 2006 15:17:33 +0200, Pierre THIERRY <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [1 <multipart/signed (7bit)>] > [1.1 <text/plain; us-ascii (quoted-printable)>] > Scribit Bas Wijnen dies 05/05/2006 hora 15:06: > > > I'm pretty sure it is impossible to have copyright on a work on > > > public domain. Maybe on the part that is added to it, but not on it > > > itself. > > That is correct, but they aren't obliged to actually tell which parts > > are the things they have copyright on. > > Yes they are. Or they would be violating your inalienables rights. At > least in France, but I'm sure our law on IP is just a transposition of > it's international version.
I am sure that even in France maps and phone books (for example) have arbitrary phony entries to be able to prove that a copy has been made in a copyright dispute. Without clearly identifying what these false entries are (doing so would completely defeat their purpose), it is impossible to use the uncopyrighted part for your own work. This is a significant problem. See for example the OpenStreetMap project: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Main_Page http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Copyright_Easter_Eggs Also, electronic versions of books that are in the public domain are often encumbered by DRM, even if they are completely unedited copies (except for layout, I suppose). Lawrence Lessig has documented several of such cases, including the US consitution and, if I recall correctly, his own book. http://www.lessig.org/blog/archives/001993.shtml (The other example was in a talk at WOS 3). Thanks, Marcus _______________________________________________ L4-hurd mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/l4-hurd
