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>Only big thing about copyrights between countries is that for exaple in
>Finland you own automaticly rigths to stuff you make (excluding if you
>sample or steal the work from another artist) but in the USA you have to
>copyright (claim the rights) your stuff.
Not true. This changed recently. From the "Ten Myths about Copyright"
by Brad Templeton:
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Myth:
"If it doesn't have a copyright notice, it's not copyrighted."
Truth:
This was true in the past, but today almost all major nations follow
the Berne copyright convention. For example, in the USA, almost
everything created privately and originally after April 1, 1989 is
copyrighted and protected whether it has a notice or not. The default
you should assume for other people's works is that they are
copyrighted and may not be copied unless you know otherwise. There
are some old works that lost protection without notice, but frankly
you should not risk it unless you know for sure.
It is true that a notice strengthens the protection, by warning
people, and by allowing one to get more and different damages, but it
is not necessary. If it looks copyrighted, you should assume it is.
This applies to pictures, too. You may not scan pictures from
magazines and post them to the net, and if you come upon something
unknown, you shouldn't post that either.
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