Re: The legality of wodim

["John Halton" <johnhalton@gmail.com>]

On 19/11/2007, Bernhard R. Link <brlink@debian.org> wrote:
> That is only a small part of Urheberrecht from what I can tell. What you mean
> is what the law calls "Urheberpersöhnlichkeitsrecht", which is only three
> short passages in the "Inhalt des Urheberrechts" part of the law,
> directly followed by a long passage about "Verwertungsrechte".
> I'm not a lawyer not have any training in that part, but §106A in
> http://www.copyright.gov/title17/92chap1.html#106a
> looks mostly like this.

The UK legislation I had in mind was Chapter IV of the Copyright,
Designs and Patents Act 1988, which can be found at:

http://www.statutelaw.gov.uk/content.aspx?LegType=All+Legislation&title=copyright+designs+and+patents+act+&Year=1988&searchEnacted=0&extentMatchOnly=0&confersPower=0&blanketAmendment=0&sortAlpha=0&TYPE=QS&PageNumber=1&NavFrom=0&parentActiveTextDocId=2250249&ActiveTextDocId=2250376&filesize=49436

I'll leave it to others to decide how that compares with the German
legislation.

However, in practical terms I don't think anyone has yet put forward
anything to suggest that merely forking a free software project would
in itself infringe any of the German Urheberrecht rights.

John

(TINLA)