[vox-tech] Copyright and license

[Micah Cowan]

Rick Moen wrote:

>Quoting Peter Jay Salzman (p at dirac.org):
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>>Suppose someone writes a useful document.  They put a copyright notice onto
>>the document, but no license.  They put it on the web, for free, and it
>>stays there for years.
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>This implies the right to download, read, and do the normal sorts of
>things one does with a document -- but not to redistribute or
>create/distribute derivative works.
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>Note:  That copyright notice has been a NOOP since adoption of the Berne
>Convention on Copyrights, which among other things makes copyright title
>vest automatically in the creator of any covered creative work, at the
>moment it's put in "fixed form".  (Arguably, a copyright notice tends to 
>remove people's assertion of ignorance, and is a good idea on general
>grounds, but it no longer has legal effect, otherwise.  Prior to Berne,
>it was possible to lose copyright title by distributing instances
>without notices.  No longer.)
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I recall reading once, a very long time ago, that the inclusion of the 
phrase, "All Rights Reserved" would in certain countries (not US) 
provide the author with additional rights that would otherwise be 
forfeited. Do you know more about this?