On Wednesday, January 7, 2015 11:45:38 PM UTC-8, Tobias Beer wrote: > > Again, to me that is entirely a given unless I or anyone else explicitly > state — in a legally binding way — that that is not the case and that I am > a copyright holder indeed, exerting "intellectual property" rights. I never > do that as I don't support the general idea of "intellectual property" at > all, even if I was to try and monetize anything. That may be stupid, but > ok. It's rather about whether or not people wish to contribute, rather than > me trying to force them to. >
Tobias, Regardless of what you "feel" copyright is (or should be)... there are specific long-established laws... and you mostly have it backwards. It is NOT neccesary for an creator to explicitly declare copyright. Copyright exists from the moment the materials are *created*. Those materials belong to the author, and they have FULL RIGHTS to control what is done with it. Of course, copyright laws DO vary from country to country... Here's the basics for US Copyright: http://copyright.gov/circs/circ1.pdf and, even more important to TiddlyWiki, the Berne Convention -- established in 1886 -- defines the international standard for copyright law: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berne_Convention and the WIPO Copyright Treaty of 1996, extends the Berne Convention to cover "computer programs" and "comilations of data" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WIPO_Copyright_Treaty Here's a relevant quote from the Berne writeup on Wikipedia > Under the Convention, copyrights for creative works are automatically in > force upon their creation without being asserted or declared. An author > need not "register" or "apply for" a copyright in countries adhering to the > Convention. As soon as a work is "fixed", that is, written or recorded on > some physical medium, its author is automatically entitled to all > copyrights in the work and to any derivative works, unless and until the > author explicitly disclaims them or until the copyright expires. and the important part of the WIPO Treaty: > Computer programs are protected as literary works within the meaning of > Article 2 of the Berne Convention. Such protection applies to computer > programs, whatever may be the mode or form of their expression. -e -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
