From: Eleanor McHugh <eleanor@...>
Date: 2007-03-12T19:44:47+09:00
Subject: Re: GUI With Ruby

On 11 Mar 2007, at 19:29, Timothy Hunter wrote:
> Eleanor McHugh wrote:
>> On 11 Mar 2007, at 16:39, I. P. wrote:
>>> EM> absolutely no need for attribution.
>>> It's correct only for USA (and probably few other countries). In  
>>> most
>>> jurisdiction public domain works require attribution.
>>
>> Interesting. So in those jurisdictions a widely distributed  
>> anonymous work wouldn't count as public domain?
>>
> To be honest, in the U.S. I would not consider anonymous works to  
> be in the public domain unless there was some very visible and  
> carefully worded statement that the work was in the public domain,  
> such as seen here: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/ 
> publicdomain/. The reason is that in the U.S. all "creative" works  
> (including software) are automatically protected by copyright, even  
> if the copyright holder is not known. This of course produces huge  
> numbers of abandoned works that can't be used and is amazingly  
> stupid, but it's the law.

Well you learn something new every day :)
I must find out if the situation is similar here in the UK.


Ellie

Eleanor McHugh
Games With Brains
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