On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 1:52 PM, Scott Elcomb <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 1:43 PM, Austin William Wright
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> > If a work is creative enough to be covered by copyright (there's no rule
> for
> > code, but usually anything not straightforward and more than a few
> lines),
> > then yeah, you need some form of license.
>
> Um... Berne Convention?
>
> "Copyright under the Berne Convention must be automatic; it is
> prohibited to require formal registration (note however that when the
> United States joined the Convention in 1988, it continued to make
> statutory damages and attorney's fees only available for registered
> works)."
>

Copyright is automatic. Licensing is not. By default, the author owns all
the rights and nobody else has any rights. Licenses grant certain rights to
certain people.

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