On Wednesday 02 of March 2011, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > > Furthermore, many copyright laws have "permitted use" > > (sorry, don't know the right english term for it) instead of fair use > > which explicitly says what can be done with a work after its first > > publishing. And this use cannot be limited by any contract, > Untrue when it comes to electronic works, as a result of WIPO Copyright > 1996.
True. For example, polish Office of Competition and Consumer Protection ruled in 2007 that stamping "any form of copying or distribution" on CD's is illegal because it misleads consumers into believing they don't have the rights I mentioned above and forced the producer to change said notice to the one corresponding to polish copyright law. http://decyzje.uokik.gov.pl/dec_prez.nsf/0/2DEDF4B2AF9B7717C12574F6002AD7E4?OpenDocument (sorry, polish only). -- [------------------------] [ k...@epsilon.eu.org ] [ http://epsilon.eu.org/ ] [------------------------]
