On Mon, Sep 09, 2013 at 08:03:06PM +0100, Russel Winder wrote: > Whilst you are correct that this has been agreed by case law for books > and magazines (the so called moral rights), as far as I am aware there > has been no case in the UK that has provided case law for this. Legal > advice is always to put an explicit statement of copyright, copyright > owner and licence in all files.
Only, I think, because lawyers tend to err on the side of what they perceive as caution rather than having any confidence that their advice is actually correct. > The difficulty, at least in UK precedent, is to know the provenance of > the content. Has the material been copied via a route that creates a > public domain work. You mean, was this computer program code written over 70 years ago or by somebody who died over 70 years ago? It doesn't seem very likely. _______________________________________________ python-uk mailing list python-uk@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-uk
